A clause that can form a complete sentence standing alone, having a subject and a predicate.
〔语法〕主句。与SUBORDINATE CLAUSE 相对
Contrasted with subordinate clause
Example sentencesExamples
Also not considered here are the various options that exist when the embedded clause functions as the subject of the main clause.
E. E. Cummings, though, can stand as the subject of a main clause with no preceding adjunct, which makes him much easier to talk about.
Now, we can take each of these structures, replace (the word) them with whom, and embed the whole thing in a main clause in which some noun phrase is to be non-restrictively modified by the structure we've created.
The clause in question is a simple modifier of the main clause.
It's part of a pair of coordinated subjunctive main clauses.
Definition of main clause in US English:
main clause
nounmeɪn klɔz
Grammar
A clause that can form a complete sentence standing alone, having a subject and a predicate.
〔语法〕主句。与SUBORDINATE CLAUSE 相对
Contrasted with subordinate clause
Example sentencesExamples
E. E. Cummings, though, can stand as the subject of a main clause with no preceding adjunct, which makes him much easier to talk about.
It's part of a pair of coordinated subjunctive main clauses.
Also not considered here are the various options that exist when the embedded clause functions as the subject of the main clause.
The clause in question is a simple modifier of the main clause.
Now, we can take each of these structures, replace (the word) them with whom, and embed the whole thing in a main clause in which some noun phrase is to be non-restrictively modified by the structure we've created.