It seems that he is a good person > That he is a good person seems ???

[sierkj]

(1) That technology is overwhelming our lives has become obvious.
--> It has become obvious that technology is overwhelming our lives.

Subject: That technology is overwhelming.
Fake subject: It
Verb: has become
Complement: obvious

2) It seems that he is a good person.
--> That he is a good person seems ...?

In this case, why can't we change the sentence form?

Subject: That he is a good person
Fake subject: It
Verb: seems
Complement: ???

If we move the subject to the front, the that-clause comes to the front, and it appears like there is no complement.

 

[emsr2d2]

Please tell us where you found the original sentence.

 

[sierkj]

Please tell us where you found the original sentence.

Title: The Crucial Grammar of English Sentences
Author: Chihoon Kim

The sentences used in my original post are not directly from any text. It was a question that I had after being inspired by the page that I have attached to the post.

Thank you for your help.

 

[emsr2d2]

Title: The Crucial Grammar of English Sentences
Author: Chihoon Kim

The sentences used in my original post are not directly from any text. It was a question that I had after being inspired by the page that I have attached to the post.

Thanks for the information. Since you didn't take the text directly from that book, it doesn't really count as the source information. In this case, you simply needed to make it clear in post #1 that you wrote the sentence yourself.

 

[sierkj]

Thanks for the information. Since you didn't take the text directly from that book, it doesn't really count as the source information. In this case, you simply needed to make it clear in post #1 that you wrote the sentence yourself.

No worries. I'll keep that in mind for the future.

Any insight on the question itself?

 

[Tarheel]

You won't run across that type of sentence very often. ("That technology is overcoming our lives" is the subject of the first sentence.)

 

[emsr2d2]

There's no natural way to complete your unfinished sentence.

 

[jutfrank]

I interpret this question to be about grammatical structure rather than what counts as good natural English. With that in mind, you can complement the verb 'seem' with 'to be the case'.

That he is a good person seems to be the case.

To be clear, I'm not saying this is good English or something that you should say—just that it's a grammatical transformation of the original, if the original is understood as 'It seems (to be the case) that he is a good person'.

By the way, sierkj, this grammar book you're using is poor. Get a better one.

 

[SoothingDave]

"...seems to be evident" is another possibility.

 

[BobK]

"...seems to be evident" is another possibility.

No. If it's evident it seems to be the case. Saying that something seems to be evident is tautological (the etymology of 'evident' is a clue).

 

[SoothingDave]

Nothing wrong with a little tautology now and again.