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Fold navy 285 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

A relative clause or a content one

It's hard to say really. The best I can come up with is something like this: Hand us the keys to the government, but don't expect us to give you anything in return. And in that indifference lies the central problem bedeviling Republicans up and down the ballot.

From the MSNBC's YouTube video.

Is the clause I can come up with a relative clause or content that-clause in the passage above?

  

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fold navy 285Is the clause I can come up with a relative clause or content that-clause in the passage above?

It's a relative clause. It has a "gap", which a content that-clause would not have:

The best explanation I can come up with is ... ~
The best explanation I can

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