(S +DON'T/DOESN'T + V1 + O [ S + V1])
I don't know the man who lives there.
(But I know he eats small children.)
2. The Embedded Relative Clause
Now, the exercise sentence you just did had a separate thought:...who
lives there. The Relative Pronoun "who" was actually a second
subject. Now look at this sentence:
The woman who lives next door is a teacher.
The woman (S) who (RP) lives (V1) next door is (V1) a teacher.
There is only one subject.
The Relative Pronoun makes a clause that is called an attribute of the
"woman" (S). In other words, we say more about the teacher in this little clause, but the teacher is still the
only subject. The Relative Pronoun here makes a clause we
call embedded.
Look at the differences once again:
Not Embedded: I don't know the man who lives there.
(S +DON'T/DOESN'T + V1 + O [ S + V1])
Embedded: The woman who lives next door is a teacher.
(S + {RP + V1} + V1)
Note: You are beginning to understand one reason that English speakers make
their sentences so long. Clauses. If you don't know where a sentence
is going, look for things that start another Clause. A Relative Pronoun is one
of the main things to look for.
Now you can try an embedded Relative Clause.
(S + {RP + V1} + V1)
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