- Although….

It is a sentence formed by two coordinate clauses. The first coordinate clause is

“although…food” and the second coordinate clause is “researchers have claimed”.
Within the first coordinate clause, there is a main clause “people continued” and two
subordinate clauses. The first subordinate clause, “although… burgers” is a finite
adverbial clause of concession functioning as Adjunct. Within this adverbial clause,
there is a subordinate finite nominal clause functioning as direct object. The second
subordinate clause is “eating junk food” and it is a non-finite -ing participle nominal
clause functioning as complement.

- “it is amazing…”

It is a sentence formed by a main clause and two subordinate clauses. The main
clause includes the predicate formed by the syntactic subject it, the main verb is and
the complement amazing. The first subordinate clause is “to watch…” which is a
non-finite nominal clause functioning as semantic subject. The second subordinate
clause is “when…” which is an adverbial clause functioning as adjunct of
time/concession/reason (se podrían admitir todos en este caso)

- “He bought…”

It is a sentence formed by two coordinated clauses. The first coordinate clause,

“he…team” is formed by the main clause and its predicate, which includes the
subject He, the main verb bought and the direct object “a ball”, and a finite
subordinate adverbial clause of time/reason functioning as Adjunct. The second
coordinate clause “but…started” is formed by the main clause “he couldn’t use it”
which is the predicate and includes the conjunct but, the subject he, the main verb
couldn’t use and the direct object it. Then there is a finite subordinate adverbial
clause of reason functioning as Adjunct “since he…. Started” which includes a
finite adverbial clause of time functioning as Adjunct within.
- “The Spanish... law”

The sentence is formed by a main clause, “the Spanish minister said” and two
subordinate clauses. The main clause includes the predicate formed by the subject
and the main verb. The first subordinate clause is “the new…system”, which is a
finite nominal clause functioning as direct object. The second subordinate clause,
“to…law” is a finite adverbial clause of unexp. Outcome functioning as Adjunct and
includes a verbless adverbial clause of comparison functioning as Adjunct. Within
this clause there is a finite relative clause functioning as postmodifier of “those.

- “Being a writer … book”

The sentence is formed by a main clause and two subordinate clauses. The main
clause is formed the main verb “Is”, the complement “difficult” and the adjunct
“nowadays”. The first subordinate clause, “being a writer”, is a non-finite -ing
participle nominal clause functioning as subject within the sentence. The second
subordinate clause, “as…book” is a finite adverbial clause of reason functioning as
Adjunct and it includes two subordinate clauses. The first subordinate clause within
the clause of reason is “since…TV” and is a finite adverbial clause of reason
functioning as adjunct. The other subordinate clause within the Adjunct of reason is
“while others..:” and is a finite adverbial clause of contrast functioning as Adjunct.
(Aquí se puede añadir que “to buy a book” es a non-finite to-infinitive clause
functioning within the NP “enough money”

- While…notation”

The sentence is formed by the main clause, “there are also … notation” and the
subordinate clause “while… formally”. The main clause is formed by the subject
“there”, the main verb “are” and the complement “dozens…notation” which
includes a finite relative clause functioning as postmodifier of “dozens…
collectives”. The subordinate clause is an adverbial clause of contrast/concession
functioning as adjunct formed by two coordinate clauses.