English Grammar Help
Hey, I'm a Norwegian girl currently working my way through my first semester of English grammar at University level. This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm wondering if someone here could help me unravel what it is I'm asked to do in a task for my obligatory paper :x I'm not asking for help with the task itself, I'm asking for help understanding the task xD
The task goes like this;
"She has tried to show that what you would have to assume in order to acquit my client is simply beyond our normal understanding of what is reasonable."
- Analyze the underlined that-clause in terms of its functional clause elements.
- The underlined clause is itself the object of another clause which in turn functions as the object of the complete sentence. Demonstrate the hierarchical clause structure of the sentence it occurs in. (Not a full syntactic analysis)
I've analysed the that-clause (identified its subject, verb, direct object, etc.), but the second part of the task has me stumped. I can see that the underlined clause is the object of another clause (it's the object of the preceding clause). But I'm not seeing how that other clause can be the object of the complete sentence @_@; What am I missing?
Help would be appreciated, but so would new friends :) As mentioned, I'm Norwegian so I could help out people who're learning Norwegian. I've studied Japanese at University level for three years, so it would also be interesting to get in touch with someone who'd like to practice that.
The task goes like this;
"She has tried to show that what you would have to assume in order to acquit my client is simply beyond our normal understanding of what is reasonable."
- Analyze the underlined that-clause in terms of its functional clause elements.
- The underlined clause is itself the object of another clause which in turn functions as the object of the complete sentence. Demonstrate the hierarchical clause structure of the sentence it occurs in. (Not a full syntactic analysis)
I've analysed the that-clause (identified its subject, verb, direct object, etc.), but the second part of the task has me stumped. I can see that the underlined clause is the object of another clause (it's the object of the preceding clause). But I'm not seeing how that other clause can be the object of the complete sentence @_@; What am I missing?
Help would be appreciated, but so would new friends :) As mentioned, I'm Norwegian so I could help out people who're learning Norwegian. I've studied Japanese at University level for three years, so it would also be interesting to get in touch with someone who'd like to practice that.