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The construction of the sentences above as follows: Sentence = an independent clause + relative clause
Relative clause = who, which, that + verb + complement Let me notice the construction above in the sentence vii in the chart below:
No: you are one of the Austrians who set the Serbs on to rob us our national liberty, and who officer their army for them.
No: you are one of the Austrians = an independent clause
who set the Serbs on to rob us our national liberty, and who officer their
army for them. = a relative clause
Who is the subject of relative clause
Clause vii use the relative pronoun who. The relative pronoun who in clause i refers to human, because it describes personal antecedent Austrians. The
relative clause is restrictive that do not use commas because it simply gives additional information and is not necessary to identify the noun it modifies.
Each relative pronouns as subject that I have found will be classified into one part of the following chart. The chart will make me easy to understand relative
pronouns both for human or non human, and restrictive or nonrestrictive.
3.1.2 Relative Pronoun as Object
Here are several examples of relative pronouns as object that I found : i
Your neighbors have their heads so full of runaway Serbs that they see them everywhere.
Alfian Fajri. An analysis of relative clause in george bernard shaw’s play “arms and the man”. 2007 USU e-Repository©2009
ii Military bow, which Raina returns coldly. iii The fear of plucky patriotism which the Serbian attack roused in all
Bulgarians has pulled him through the war. iv He darts into the passage, and returns dragging in Louka, whom he
flings violently against the table exclaiming. v I know things about him that she wouldn’t let him hear the last of for
six months if I babbled them to her. vi He goes into the house and returns presently with a third chair,
Your neighbors have their heads so full of runaway Serbs which
he places at the table. The underlined clauses in those six sentences above are relative clauses which
are introduced by relative pronoun whom, which, and that. The relative pronoun whom, which, and that in those clause functions characteristically as object of
relative clause. The underlined clauses describe and modify the noun phrase as their antecedent in the main clause that precedes them.
The analysis of clause i:
The construction of the sentences above as follows: Sentence = an independent clause + relative clause
Relative clause = whom, which, that + subject + verb + complement Let me notice the construction above in the sentence i in the chart below:
that they see them everywhere.
Your neighbors have their heads so full = an independent clause
Alfian Fajri. An analysis of relative clause in george bernard shaw’s play “arms and the man”. 2007 USU e-Repository©2009
of runaway Serbs that they see them everywhere.
= a relative clause that is the object of verb of relative clause
Clause i use the relative pronoun that. The relative pronoun that in clause i refers to human, because it describes personal antecedent Serbs and functions as
the object of verb see. The relative clause is restrictive that do not use commas because it simply gives additional information and is not necessary to identify the
noun it modifies
The analysis of clause ii:
The construction of the sentences above as follows: Sentence = a noun phrase + relative clause
Relative clause = whom, which, that + subject + verb + complement Let me notice the construction above in the sentence ii in the chart below:
Military bow, which Raina returns coldly. Military bow,
= a noun phrase which Raina returns coldly.
= a relative clause which is the object of verb of relative clause
Clause ii use the relative pronoun which. The relative pronoun which in clause ii refers to nonhuman, because it describes impersonal antecedent
Military bow and functions as the object of verb returns. The relative clause is
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nonrestrictive that use commas because it is necessary to identify the noun it modifies
The analysis of clause iii:
The construction of the sentences above as follows: Sentence = an independent clause + relative clause
Relative clause = whom, which, that + subject + verb + complement Let me notice the construction above in the sentence iii in the chart below:
The fear of plucky patriotism which the Serbian attack roused in all Bulgarians has pulled him through the war.
The Serbs have Austrian Officers has pulled him through the war.
= an independent clause
which the Serbian attack roused in all Bulgarians
= a relative clause
which is the object of verb of relative clause
Clause iii use the relative pronoun which. The relative pronoun which in clause iii refers to nonhuman, because it describes personal antecedent thefear of
plucky patriotism and functions as the object of verb attack. The relative clause is restrictive that do not use commas because it simply gives additional information
and is not necessary to identify the noun it modifies
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The analysis of clause iv:
The construction of the sentences above as follows: Sentence = an independent clause + relative clause
Relative clause = whom, which, that + subject + verb + complement Let me notice the construction above in the sentence iv in the chart below:
He darts into the passage, and returns dragging in Louka, whom he flings violently against the table exclaiming.
He darts into the passage, and returns dragging in Louka,
= an independent clause
whom he flings violently against the table exclaiming.
= a relative clause
Whom is the object of verb of relative clause
Clause iv use the relative pronoun whom. The relative pronoun whom in clause iv refers to human, because it describes personal antecedent Raina and
functions as the object of verb flings. The relative clause is nonrestrictive that use commas because it is necessary to identify the noun it modifies
The analysis of clause v:
The construction of the sentences above as follows: Sentence = an independent clause + relative clause
Relative clause = whom, which, that + subject + verb + complement Let me notice the construction above in the sentence v in the chart below:
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I know things about him that she wouldn’t let him hear the last of for six months if I babbled them to her.
I know things about him = an independent clause
that she wouldn’t let him hear the last of for six months if I babbled them to her.
= a relative clause
that is the object of verb of relative clause
Clause v use the relative pronoun that. The relative pronoun that in clause v refers to human, because it describes personal antecedent him as pronoun and
functions as the object of verb let. The relative clause is restrictive that do not use commas because it simply gives additional information and is not necessary to
identify the noun it modifies
The analysis of clause vi:
The construction of the sentences above as follows: Sentence = an independent clause + relative clause
Relative clause = whom, which, that + subject + verb + complement Let me notice the construction above in the sentence vi in the chart below:
He goes into the house and returns presently with a third chair, which he places at the table.
He goes into the house and returns presently with a third chair,
= an independent clause
Alfian Fajri. An analysis of relative clause in george bernard shaw’s play “arms and the man”. 2007 USU e-Repository©2009
which he places at the table. = a relative clause
Which is the object of verb of relative clause
Clause vi use the relative pronoun Which. The relative pronoun Which in clause vi refers to nonhuman, because it describes impersonal antecedent chair
and functions as the object of verb places. The relative clause is nonrestrictive that use commas because it is necessary to identify the noun it modifies
3.1.3 Possessive Relative Clause
