This document discusses how to identify clauses. It states that each clause contains a finite verb, which is marked for tense, person, and number. Clauses also contain complements and adjuncts that accompany the finite verb. Clauses can be marked for aspect and mood. There are two types of clauses: main clauses and subordinate clauses. Subordinate clauses include complement clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses. Complement clauses modify verbs, relative clauses modify nouns, and adverbial clauses modify whole clauses.

1. Team: Nancy Coria Adame
Jorge Agustín Suastegui Paredes
Daniela Rivera Javier
Andrea Balderrama
Subject: Syntax
Semester: 2° Group: «I»

2. How can we identify clauses?
 Each clause contains a finite verb
Finite verb: Are traditionally marked for tense, person
and number.
Tense: Has to do wheter the speaker or writer uses a
tense.
Person: Has to do with wheter an action is assigned to
the speaker.
Number: Has to do wheter the speaker or writer refers
to one person or more than one person.

3.  In each clause, the finite verb is accompained by its
complements and adjuncts.
 Each clause is marked for aspect, and the aspect canbe
changed. Example: Compare Wickham was eloping with Lydia as
opposed to Wickham eloped with Lydia.
 Each clause has to do with mood. Has todo wth two sets of
distinctions.
Distinctions between making statements, asking
questions, issuing commands.
And distinctions wheter the speaker or writer
presents an event as possible, or necessary, or as a
fact.

4.  These both distnctions allow certain changes of syntax to
reflect changes of focus or emphasis.
 Clauses descirbe situations the participants of them and the
circunstances in which they take place.
 Both can be the first contribution to a discourse, wheter
spoken or written.
We can recognize clauses by which phrases modify
which verb.

5. Main clauses are all the conjoined clauses.
Subordinate clauses could be:
 Complement clauses: (Noun clauses) They occur in slots in the
main clause that can be occupied by ordinary noun phrases.
They modify verbs.
 Relative clauses: (Adjective clauses) The relative clauses
modify nouns. In English, relative clauses follows the noun.
 Adverbial clauses: They modify verbs, but they only modify
whole clauses and they are adjuncts. Adverbial clauses are
classified according to their meaning, for example, adverbial
clauses of reason, tiem concession, manner or condition.