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() spoke as if I were a child that needed to be distracted.
It is a complex sentence comprising three clauses. (Or: it is a complex sentence consisting of the main clause
He spoke and two subordinate clauses of different degrees of subordination.) The first subordinate clause is of
the first degree of subordination. It is an adverbial clause of comparison introduced by the conjunction as if and
depending on the predicate of the main clause. The second subordinate clause is of the second degree of
subordination. It is a restrictive attributive clause introduced by the relative pronoun that and depending on the
predicative of the previous clause, that is, the clause of the first degree of subordination.
(b) When the news came that France had mobilized and that the Germans had crossed the Belgian frontier,
George abandoned all hope immediately.
It is a complex sentence consisting of one principal and three subordinate clauses. The first subordinate
clause is introduced by the conjunction when and is a subordinate clause of time of the first degree of
subordination. The other two clauses are of the second degree of subordination. They are homogeneous
appositive clauses introduced by the conjunction that and linked with each other by the copulative conjunction
and. They both depend on the subject of the adverbial clause of time.