... subject; the dummy subject then appears at the beginning of the sentence, separated from the rest of the sentence Extrapositional means that the it is extra (beyond) the position (part of the sentence) ... that the Edgar of the main clause is the selfsame Edgar as the Edgar of the subordinate clause, so we speak of the two Edgars as being equivalent Perhaps to avoid redundancy, English deletes the ... The big bad wolf couldn’t blow the house down because of the hurricane → Because of the hurricane, the big bad wolf couldn’t blow the house down The six coordinating conjunctions are and/(either)or/(neither)nor...