English Language & Usage Asked on September 28, 2021
She then told them she was 52, living alone, and had no doubt there was something very malicious and dangerous in her house, and that she dared not go back inside.
How many object clauses are there? Two or four? Do they all need to be preceded by "that"?
She then told them
1 she
1' was
1'' 52,
1'' living alone,
1' (and) had no doubt there was something very malicious and dangerous in her house,
1 (and) that she dared not go back inside.
The grammar is just fine, (1 she) could also be preceded by that. The second that marking dependent clause she dared not go back inside seems necessary to mark the fact that it is not part of the noun phrase headed by doubt, though even with it, it is technically ambiguous whether we are meant to understand that:
she had no doubt that she dared not go back inside
OR
She then told them that she dared not go back inside
Assuming the latter, there is a coordination at the (1), (1') and (1'') level. The (1'') level coordination is not marked.
If we take object clauses to be clauses allowed by other verbs, and take clauses generally to be constructions headed by a single verb, the object clauses are:
was 52, living alone
(and) had no doubt there was something very malicious and dangerous in the house
(and) that she dared not go back inside
living alone
go back inside
There is one additional clause in the sentence:
there was something very malicious in her house
Answered by DW256 on September 28, 2021
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