Етикет: TYPES

INTORDUCTION
When it comes to the notion of the clause in English we must bear in mind that any linguistic terminology is far from universal and very often trying to supply a definite description of a term brings along more questions. 91 What constitutes a clause in English must be determined by looking at the concept from various perspectives and we should consider the views of different authors. There are distinctions also based on the grammatical school and type of grammar (formal, functional, etc.) we are taking into account.
PRELIMINARIES
It would be useful to first draw a line of demarcation between a clause and a sentence, the latter being of more fuzzy nature and often broadly defined as the highest syntactic unit in English. Clause on the other hand might be seen as both a simple sentence (independent clauses, in particular) and a constituent in the complex sentence (dependent/subordinate clauses).

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