Deck access

Deck access is a term used to describe flats that are accessed from a walkway that is open to the elements, as opposed to flats that are accessed from fully enclosed internal corridors. Deck access blocks of flats are usually fairly low-rise structures. The decks can vary from simple walkways, which may be covered or uncovered, to decks wide enough for small vehicles. The best known example of deck-access flats in the UK is Park Hill, Sheffield, where the decks are wide enough to allow electric vehicles, however the design is inspired by French Modernist architect Le Corbusier, particularly his Unite D'Habitation in Marseilles.

Grammar:

THE COMPOUND SENTENCE AND THE COMPLEX SENTENCE

THE COMPLEX SENTENCE

To separate subordinate clauses from the principal clause the following rules on the use of stops are observed.

Subject clauses as a rule are not separated from the principal clause by any stop.

What he learned of farming in that week might have been balanced on the

point of a penknife and puffed off. (Galsworthy)

However, a comma is found if the subject clause is of some length and if a subordinate clause is attached to it.

What had saved him from becoming a cross between a lap dog and a little

prig, had been his father’s adoration of his mother. (Galsworthy)

Predicative clauses as a rule are not separated from the principal clause by any stop. A comma is often used when they are joined asyndetically.

Ruth’s point of view was that he was doing no more than was right. (London)

My opinion is, she’d come to me. (Weyman)

Object clauses are not separated from the principal clause by a stop. If the object clause precedes the principal clause, a comma may or may not be used.

The silence was so long and deep that he looked up, wondering why the Padre

did not speak. (Voynich)

...and what Browning had done for her, Martin decided-he could do for Ruth.

(London)