Notes 1. Students working at Level Five might want to look at this clause in terms of the delayed subject. Note that the "It" is a meaningless placeholder, and that the sentence means "When Frackles got hit was at night." 2. A case can easily be made for considering this clause as adverbial to "got stuck." I prefer the adjectival explanation because it better fits the KISS theory of how the brain processes language. "[M]orning" will already be in STM, and the brain is much more likely to make a meaningful chunk to something that is already in it, than it is to hold the clause until it reaches "got stuck." 3. I'm leaving the "Like" uncounted because
I consider the clause
to be an interjection. Personally, I don't have any problem leaving
it as a subordinate clause fragment. It's meaning is clear, and it comes
at the end of the paragraph. That it was probably an afterthought helps
explain why it is a fragment. In addition, there is the question of what
it modifies -- "think" or "is." (Like I said before, I just think she is
fun to play with" or " I just think she is, like I said before, fun to
play with." (Although I myself would use "as" here instead of "like," the
battle against the use of "like" as a conjuntion was lost decades ago.
Attempting to continue that battle probably only adds to students' distaste
for grammar.)
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