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"For" is functioning as a coordinate adjective, so "the entertainment..."
is a second independent clause and should be treated as such. The entire
sentence is compound-complex.--Lori Pahde, MacMurray College Learning
Center
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, MAX MORENBERG wrote:
> Ed, I think that "as many travelers will remember" is an adverb clause
> functioning as an adverb of . . . . I guess I'd say an adverb of
> attendant circumstance. That is, the action of the adverb clause is
> attendant to the action in the relative clause it disjoins (i t is in
> essentially an "and by the way" relationship with it). "Which is seated. .
> ." and by the way, many travelers will remember [this]. "For the
> entertainment of tourists is the business of the place" is also an adverb
> clause, but this one functioning as an adverb of reason.
> >
> > I have been putting a grammar course on-line, with answer keys, and =
> >I'm wondering how members of ATEG would explain "as many travelers will =
> >remember" in the following sentence from the opening paragraph of James' =
> >"Daisy Miller":
> >
> >There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is the =
> >business of the place, which, as many travelers will remember, is seated =
> >upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake--a lake that it behooves every =
> >tourist to visit.=20
> >
> >You might also want to comment on the function of the "for" clause. I will =
> >probably include some of your comments as notes =AF disagreements :) =AF =
> >to my explanation.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Ed
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