mmslf75 wrote:In E , can THAT refer to anything before a COMMA ?
I rememeber one of your sentence
I want a TV, with a remote, that is black
am i getting it right that --- that may refer to anything before the comma "if the fragment is in a pair of commas " ?
well, that's not the right way to think about the situation.
the right way to think about the situation is to consider the base sentence - "i want a tv that is black" - ignoring the modifier.
when the modifier is placed into the sentence, it comes WITH the commas (as a sort of "package deal").
here's the thing: it's possible to put a modifier with commas in LOTS of different places in sentences like these. if you're going to consider every different such placement as a completely separate sentence structure, you're going to create
hundreds of "new" sentence structures that aren't really different at all.
for instance:
according to archaeologists, Mt. X is the site of many buried dinosaur fossils.
Mt. X is the site, archaeologists have said, of many buried dinosaur fossils.
Mt. X is, archaeologists have said, the site of many buried dinosaur fossils.
etc.
these are ALL legitimate sentence structures. overall, they're clearly the same sentence, but your type of analysis is going to consider them all to be "different".
if i were you, i wouldn't do that (unless you delight in the possibility of having 3-4 times as many different sentence structures to consider).
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