沃尔夫开始相信某种语言决定论的观点，这种言论最强烈的表述是语言禁锢了思想，而语言中的语法模式会对社会文化产生深远的影响。
Whorf（主语） came（谓语） to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism （宾语）which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society（定语从句，修饰linguistic determinism).
定语从句：which（主语）,in its strongest form（状语）, states（谓语） that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society（宾语从句）