Topic 7 (session A) - The grammar of complex sentences > More on nesting

More on nesting

Let us first summarise what we have learned about nesting from the 'Linking, listing and nesting' page.

• Clauses can be nested (embedded, subordinated) inside other clauses directly. That is, the embedded clause becomes an entire SPOCA element inside a main clause, and so effectively takes the place of an entire phrase which would comprise a SPOCA element in a simple sentence.

• So far we have noticed two sorts of directly nested clauses,

  • Noun Clauses (NCls, which take the place of entire NPs as SPOCA elements), and

  • Adverbial clauses (AdvCls, which take the place of entire AdvPs as SPOCA elements). We have some examples of Noun Clauses and Adverb clauses.
    

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