Asked by Anonymous

Please help me ive been trying to figure this out, but I DO NOT understand it...I do not understand what an embedded sentence is
We have to find the embedded sentences in:
I deplore the fact that bats have wings.

That Guinevere loves Lorian is known to all my friends.

please explain to me what it is so I can do the rest of my homework..thanks so much!!
Answered by Isabel
This is supremely easy! Just find sentences within sentences that make sense to the subject!
Answered by Writeacher
Isabel is right -- just look for a sentence inside the whole sentence.

Let us know what you find, and someone here will be happy to comment.

=)
Answered by Anonymous
I deplore the fact that bats have wings.
--> bats have wings
That Guinevere loves Lorian is known to all my friends
--> Guinevere loves Lorian

This is what someone told me but then i looked at the sample problem:
"Yesterday I noticed my accountant repairing the toilet"--> the answer to this was "my accountant repairing the toilet" which is not a sentence
Answered by Writeacher
The two that you listed at the top are correct. These can be sentences on their own.

The example with "repairing" in it is not an embedded sentence; you are right.
Answered by Anonymous
yes but that was the answer...that was the sample problem on the page and the answer was "my accoutnant repairing the toilet" that is why i don't understand it
Answered by Writeacher
I don't understand it either, but then I've seen lots of BAD MISTAKES in textbooks. Not every text is perfect. Just know that you are right: "my accountant repairing the toilet" is not a complete sentence. The ones you wrote in the third post here are correct.