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SPECIAL TOPICS IN INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE GRAMMAR
planet does not exist."
It should be noted that in identifying major elements, the entire NP or verbal
does not need to be examined. For example, if an NP contains a long relative
clause, examining the head noun should be enough at this stage. The impor-
tant thing in this step is to grasp a rough idea of each clause identified in the
previous step.
Guideline 3: Identify the scope of key elements, including conjunctions,
nouns, nominalizers, quotative markers, and auxiliaries.
The scope of an element X is defined as the range of a sentence part which is
dependent on X. (See DBJG, Appendix 8 Improving Reading Skill by Identi-
fying an 'Extended Sentential Unit.')
In the following examples, the key elements to be identified and examined
are set off by boxes. "[ 1" identifies the scope of the boxed element which fol-
lows.

(A British astronomy group announced in last July's issue of Nature,
a British science journal, that [they had for the first time discovered a
planet outside the solar system,] but this was due to a miscalculation
(lit. this was a miscalculation) and it turned out that [the planet does
not exist.])

(Planet B is scheduled [to travel for a little more than a year, reach
Mars' circling orbit in October 1997, and continue its observation for
over two years.])
It should be noted that in this example, the scope of yotei 'schedule' extends
beyond the immediate clause break.

*In (43), the scope of koto can extend from "wakusei wan or from "kore wa."
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