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Paragraphs from The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Dideon
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sentence 12: When Quintana was at UCLA and he happened to be in California he had taken an afternoon to come by the neuroscience unit and talk to the doctors there. (Didion, 2006, p. 170)
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DEP #1 |
When Quintana was at UCLA |
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subordinator: When function: adds a time reference to IND DEP type: adverbial clause of time
subject: Quintana (proper noun) verb: was adverbial: at UCLA (prepositional phrase) structure: SVA |
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and (coordinator)
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DEP #2 |
he happened to be in California |
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subordinator: zero subordinator function: adds a time reference to IND DEP type: adverbial clause of time
subject: he (pronoun) verb: happened adverbial: to be (infinitive) structure: SVA
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IND |
he had taken an afternoon to come by the neuroscience unit and talk to the doctors there |
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subject: he (pronoun) verb: had taken object: afternoon (common noun) structure: SVO |
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clause combination: 1+2 sentence type: X
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Reference: Didion, J. (2006). The year of magical thinking. New York: Vintage International. |