Panda blue 483 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Terms/sentence structure.

a dependent clause can be the head of a sentence if it does not 'proceed as a main clause from the previous sentence.'

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Jenny buys her flowers from the store. This is the essence of consumerism.


This is the essence of consumerism (dependent head : complete main clause).

Proceeds as a main clause from the previous sentence.












  

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html I think you might mean 'the beginning of a sentence'. At least that would avoid confusion with the technical definition of 'head of a sentence' in linguistics. panda blue 483 Is this statement accurate ?

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panda blue 483the head of a sentence

"The head of a sentence is usually taken to be the tensed verb, and every other word is either dependent on the sentence head, or connects to it through a path of dependencies."

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