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Thanks, everyone. The "which" test does work on sentence 1, but not
sentence 2. Maybe we idiomatically prefer "the fact that . . . " or
maybe I should have agreed that sentence 2 was an appositive? I can see
that it's definitely an appositive in the sentence "That fact, that they
didn't like chocolate, surprised her"--but that's not the same
sentence.
Ultimately, I guess it doesn't matter that much. These sentences won't
appear on any test--the students wrote the sentences for a different
activity. I can just agree that sometimes it's really hard to tell what
a clause is doing, just like it's sometimes really hard to tell what a
prepositional phrase is doing, and leave it at that.
Thanks,
Beth
>Here are a couple of example sentences with the suspected appositives
>in brackets:
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>1. The book, [that was titled 'Great Expectations',] was a classic.
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>2. The fact [that they didn't like chocolate] surprised her.
Beth Rapp Young
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~byoung
University of Central Florida
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