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What is a frontal clause,main clause, embeded clause and end clause?
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I don't understand any of those as being grammatical - see wiki here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause
- do the descriptions you are asking about refer to legal clauses or some other specialist use?
- do the descriptions you are asking about refer to legal clauses or some other specialist use?
Googling
"frontal clause"
seems to bring up only references to 'full frontal clauses', relating to nudity in the theatre or on film.
Changing the search term to
"frontal clause" -full
(to get rid of all those nudity references) still doesn't bring up a single reference to a grammatical definition. I can only think that some college lecturer has decided to coin their own term for a clause (possibly adverbial) appearing at the start of a sentence.
Similarly, neither I nor Google has heard of an 'end clause', so I can only assume that it's being used to refer to a (possibly adverbial) clause at the end of a sentence.
A main (or independent) clause is a clause which can stand (as a complete sentence) in its own right.
A clause which adds something to a main (or independent) clause is a dependent clause. If the sentence would become ungrammatical without a particular dependent clause, that clause is then said to be 'embedded'.
Chris
"frontal clause"
seems to bring up only references to 'full frontal clauses', relating to nudity in the theatre or on film.
Changing the search term to
"frontal clause" -full
(to get rid of all those nudity references) still doesn't bring up a single reference to a grammatical definition. I can only think that some college lecturer has decided to coin their own term for a clause (possibly adverbial) appearing at the start of a sentence.
Similarly, neither I nor Google has heard of an 'end clause', so I can only assume that it's being used to refer to a (possibly adverbial) clause at the end of a sentence.
A main (or independent) clause is a clause which can stand (as a complete sentence) in its own right.
A clause which adds something to a main (or independent) clause is a dependent clause. If the sentence would become ungrammatical without a particular dependent clause, that clause is then said to be 'embedded'.
Chris
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