<Dd> <Dl> <Dd> c . You've been hungry for how long? - Appearance of interrogative word how and rising intonation make the clause a constituent question </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> <Dl> <Dd> c . You've been hungry for how long? - Appearance of interrogative word how and rising intonation make the clause a constituent question </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> c . You've been hungry for how long? - Appearance of interrogative word how and rising intonation make the clause a constituent question </Dd> <P> Examples like these demonstrate that how a clause functions cannot be known based entirely on a single distinctive syntactic criterion . SV - clauses are usually declarative, but intonation and / or the appearance of a question word can render them interrogative or exclamative . </P>

Does an embedded clause make a complex sentence