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agreement. To illustrate, in ^^I have met the Browns, who are 

 going to Europe" I will suppose that you know perfectly well 

 whom I mean by ^^the Browns/' without the help of anything 

 but the word itself. AVith the idea which it suggests, by means 

 of suitable words I induce you to associate other ideas, so as to 

 form the thought expressed by ^'I have met the Browns." Also 

 with the idea expressed by ^'Browns," by means of other suita- 

 ble words, I induce you to associate still other ideas, so as to form 

 the thought expressible by ^'The Browns are going to Europe." 

 This, too, I believe is all that you do, either by my inducement 

 or independently. That is, whether the principal or the infor- 

 mational clause be examined, one form of procedure appears. 

 In particular, then, it may be said that the lyrocedure of an in- 

 formational relative clause is this : by means of terms associ- 

 ated with a term occurring in the principal it formulates a propo- 

 sition. 



As both the principal and the informational clauses aim, as 

 expressions of the speaker's belief, to increase the hearer's 

 knowledge, both are properly put in the form of assertions. 

 Thus, in ^'I have met Brown, who is going to Europe," there can 

 be, I think, no question that I assert not only my meeting with 

 Browm, but also Brown's going to Europe. iSTow assertion is 

 the distinctive characteristic of a sentence. (See IvTote, p. 89.) 

 As a sentence, therefore, the informational relative properly 

 i^anks, diiferins: from others merelv in the circumstance that 

 one of its factors is simultaneouslv a factor of another sentence.-^ 

 This circumstance, it is moreover obvious, is characteristic also 

 of its principal. 



In the examination of the restrictive clause an effort will be 

 made to show that it enters the principal clause as one of its ele- 

 ments, or in other words as a part of speech, i^ow the informa- 

 tional clause is not a part of speech at all, but, so to speak, a 

 speech in itself. In other v^ords the function of the informa- 

 tional clause is that of a sentence. 



The exact opposite, in most cases, of the informational clause 

 in opportunity, warrant, purpose, procedure, and function I ^^lan 

 to exhibit in 



^Or, in other words, principal and informational clause together form a 

 polyphrastic sentence. See Section I, f. 



