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Notes: 1. Ideally, you recognized this as a subordinate clause. You were not, however, expected to correctly explain its function. We'll get to that in Level Five. 2. This clause is an ironic statement of condition -- in spite of the fact that the man's views and feelings are unknown, the truth that he wants a wife "is fixed." 3. Because it comes in the middle of the quotation, I prefer to consider this clause as an interjection, but you could also consider "lady ... said" as the main S/V with the quotation as the direct object. 4. You probably wondered about what to do with this "But." It doesn't really join main clauses or even two sentences. You could consider it to be a preposition with the clause as the object of the preposition -- "{But [it is]}. This would result in her reply being a fragment, which is acceptable in speech. Or you could spend hours looking it up in grammar books. Good luck, and if you find it, please let us know. I don't consider it to be worth all tht time and effort, so at Level Five, I'm going to consider it as an interjection. 5. Because of the semicolon that precedes it, I have counted this "for" as a coordinating conjunction. Because this is quoted speech, you could consider it as a subordinating conjunction -- we speak in fragments. Note that in meaning, this "for" carries past the following "and." Therefore, whatever you consider one of these clauses, you should consider both of them as the same thing. Unless you have been working with clauses for some time, you were expected to miss this. 6. These subordinate clauses, each beginning with a subordinating "that" are joined with semicolons because of their length and the commas within some of them. 7. Because of the semicolon, I have counted this as a main clause break. Most of the clauses are ellipsed -- "*He is* a single man of large fortune; *his income is* four or five thousand (PN) a year." 8. Because it appears within its semantic
(meaningful) direct object, I prefer to consider clauses such as these
as interjections. You
can, however, consider "wife ... replied" as the main S/V with the
quotation as its direct object.
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