
Sentence: Alone together at last, I told her how I thought that –in my unbiased opinion–the incidence of oxymorons in the English language had been growing smaller.
NOTES
Source: Brian Bilston, The Incidence of Oxymorons. 2022
CEFR Level: C2
Organization:
- 1 comma separating initial adverbial phrase from rest of sentence
- 2 subordinating conjunctions introducing 2 embedded noun clauses
- 2 m-dashes showing parenthetical information
Syntax: 5 constituents:
- adverbial (How?)
- subject
- predicator (in past simple)
- indirect object
- direct object
Speech:
- 3 nouns
- 5 verbs
- 5 adjectives
- 1 adverb
- 2 pronouns
- 3 determiners
- 4 prepositions
Phrase:
- 4 adverbial
- 1 noun
- 1 verb
Clause:
- 1 independent
- 2 embedded dependent – noun
Sentence Type: complex
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