a sentence without a connection?
The example sentence:
Women have entered the labour force in large numbers, a fact which has strongly affected the personal lives of people of both sexes.
At first, I would like to put a number into the two sentence like below.
1) Women have entered the labour force in large numbers
2) a fact which has strongly affected the personal lives of people of both sexes.
It doesn't have a connection word like 'although', 'because', 'and', 'but' etc. I wonder How I can understand the relation between 1) and 2).
Please give me the answer.
Re: a sentence without a connection?
Hello, atssarbia
******* Not A Teacher *******
The sentence below might help you understand your problem.
Every year the Christmas shopping season seems to start earlier, a fact which many people find hard to stomach. (from Longman Language Activator)
1) Every year the Christmas shopping season seems to start earlier,
2) a fact which many people find hard to stomach.
1) explains 2). That is: 1) is a fact which ……. The same idea can be applied to your case. This must be the relation (= connection), I think.
Kazuo
Re: a sentence without a connection?
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Originally Posted by
atssarbia 
The example sentence:
Women have entered the labour force in large numbers, a fact which has strongly affected the personal lives of people of both sexes.
At first, I would like to put a number into the two sentence like below.
1) Women have entered the labour force in large numbers
2) a fact which has strongly affected the personal lives of people of both sexes.
It doesn't have a connection word like 'although', 'because', 'and', 'but' etc. I wonder How I can understand the relation between 1) and 2).
Please give me the answer.
***** NOT A TEACHER *****
Good morning, atssarbia.
(1) You are correct: there is no conjunction.
(2) A fact which has ....both sexes = those words are in apposition with the whole sentence ("Women... in large numbers").
(3) Most native speakers would probably leave out "a fact":
Women have entered the labor force in large numbers, which has affected the lives of both sexes. ("which" = which fact)
(a) "which" is interpreted as a relative pronoun that refers to the whole main sentence ("Women ...large numbers").
(b) This is a nice way of writing one sentence instead of two:
Women have entered the labor force in large numbers. This (fact) has affected the lives of both sexes.
Thank you.
