Actually Darcy, I think that Perry sentence is kind of grammatically weird, because the part that ends with newspaper is the independent clause. It could stand by itself as a sentence. It's not true, which is why the sentence is weird. Because the because starts the he could yodel phrase, that is dependent. (Because he could yodel) would make no sense as a sentence by itself.
Yeah, I knew it was grammatically weird. But I was going on "he could yodel," in other words, leaving off the conjunction, as the independent clause. And since we know that Perry DID become the editor of the DP, then "Perry White did not become the editor of a major metropolitan newspaper" can't really be independent, can it?
Or can it?
Oi. I confuse myself.
