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Understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas

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For example:

  • adding embedded clauses to extend the noun group in sentences, such as The weavers, who were well-known tricksters, promised to make the Emperor new clothes even though they had no intention of doing so.
  • adding embedded clauses to explain content, such as If we are to save the numbat, a highly endangered Western Australian marsupial, we must act to preserve their habitat.
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