The given sentence above is an example of a sentence. It is a sentence since it has a subject and a predicate, and also, it conveys a complete thought. Clause fragments are those types of clauses that do not have either the subject or predicate and does not convey a complete thought. Hope this answer helps.
All the things that Hamlet said after he asked Ophelia where her father was is already directed to Polonius. He already knew that Polonius was in the room, eavesdropping.
"Are you honest?", "Are you fair?" are the lines which Ophelia did not really understand why he was asking. This means that these lines are directed to Polonius.
"It hath made me mad" was said for them to believe that he's really crazy.
Arbitrariness, cultural transmission, discreteness, displacement, duality, and productivity.
Those are the properties hope it helped!
Answer :
The following sentence best summarizes one central idea of the passage from "Mother Tongue" :
A.The expression of experience through language is more powerful when different forms of English are accepted.
Tan has a firm belief that nonstandard forms of English are legitimate languages in their own right.
Excerpts from the text that support this answer are :
1. "But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world."
2. "-I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as "simple"; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as "broken"; my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as "watered down"; and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted to capture what language ability tests can never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts."
The dependent clause would be : “since he was not there,” because the phrase on its own is incomplete .
