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Originally Posted by Miss_Pink  Hmm...its getting a bit to complex for me 
All i need to know is if "and may remain so after november" is a clause??
Also - if it is a clause, is may the predicator or is remain the predicator? |
If it weren't for the comma before 'and', the fragment 'and may remain so ..' couldn't be treated as a separate clause. We would consider it as another predicate's group.
The predicate is 'may remain so'. It is a compound mixed modal-nominal predicate.
Soup, I don't think 'remain' is a participle. It is a bare infinitive. Any modal predicate consists of a modal verb (or expression) and an infinitive. 'May remain' is no exception.