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6905582-The-Structure-of-Modern-English-Language
Compound-Complex Sentences 317

both of them. Dropping the second-degree clause, we get the sentence She looked at him, as he lay propped upon his elbow, turning towards hers his white face of fear and perplexity, like a child (...). This is satisfactory, though the point of the phrase like a child remains somewhat obscure. If both clauses are dropped the sentence runs like this: She looked at him, which is quite satisfactory in every respect.

Such analysis should of course be pursued further, and this would probably yield valuable information concerning both the grammatical and the semantic structure of sentences.


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