What are subject clauses, predicative clauses, attributive clauses and appositive clauses?

First of all, you should understand the meaning of subject, predicative, attributive and appositive.

subject clause

1) Simple family dining table structure: This is water. This is water.

Replace the above subjects "This" and "this" with a sentence:

What we need is water. Subject: What do we need?

What we need is water. Subject: What we need is a sentence.

This is the subject clause.

2) Simple subject-predicate-object structure: This method is feasible. This method works.

Replace the above subjects "this method" and "this method" with one sentence:

It is feasible for us to replace this part. Subject: We replace this part.

It is feasible for us to replace this part. Subject: We replace this part with a sentence.

This is the subject clause.

Predicative clause

Simple main list structure: the reason is his attitude. The reason is his attitude. ?

Replace the expressions "his attitude" and "his attitude" with one sentence:

The reason is that he has no positive attitude. Predicate: He has no positive attitude.

The reason is that he has no positive attitude. His lack of positive attitude is a sentence.

This is a predicative clause.

attributive clause

The attributive clause is a little more complicated because it involves adjusting the sentence structure.

A simple attribute is just an adjective: small tree; sapling

Let's make the above attributives "small" and "small" a little more complicated and use this phrase: trees in the garden.

The complexity of attributive clauses begins here. In Chinese, the attribute "... in a sentence.

Replace the above attributives "in the garden" and "in the garden" with one sentence:

I like the tree that we planted two years ago. Attribute: We planted it two years ago.

I like the tree that we planted two years ago. Attribute: We planted a sentence two years ago.

This is an attributive clause. In English, we should abide by the principle of putting such a long attribute after the noun described.

Appositive clause

Appositive grammar holds that a word/phrase has the same content as the previous noun. Simple appositive:

Shanghai, an international metropolis "International Metropolis" is the apposition of "Shanghai".

English: Shanghai, an international metropolis, is the apposition of Shanghai.

Limited to appositive clauses that need to explain the particularity of the preceding nouns, the following examples cannot be inherited from the above:

We received news that they would come to the meeting tomorrow.

Subject: Our predicate: Patient Object: Information apposition: They will come to the meeting tomorrow.

An appositive is a sentence, so it is an appositive clause. Translate into English:

We received news that they would come to the meeting tomorrow. ?

Subject: Our predicate: Accepting object: News apposition: What about them? Will come to the meeting tomorrow.