Those who prefer to let their classification be governed by the logical
relation rather than by the grammatical construction call such a sentence
compound, making the relative clause independent, or co-ordinate with its
antecedent clause.
Such classification will often require very careful discrimination; as, for
instance, between the preceding sentence and the following: I gave the
letter to my friend, _who can be trusted_.
But we know of no author who, in every case, governs his classification of
phrases and clauses strictly by their logical relations. Let us examine the
following sentences:--
John, _who did not know the law_, is innocent. John is innocent; _he
did not know the law_. John is innocent _because he did not know the
law_.
No grammarian, we think, would class each of these three italicized clauses
as an adverb clause of cause. Do they differ in logical force? The student
should carefully note all those constructions in which the grammatical form
and the logical force differ. (See pages 119, 121, 138, 139, 142, 143.)]
+Caution+.--The adjective clause should be placed as near as possible to
the word it modifies.
+Direction+.--_Correct the following errors of position, and insert the
comma when needed_:--
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