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Seoul Brother Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

about omission of relative pronouns

The book (which) I was reading was interesting.

I know object relative pronouns can be omitted .I am wondering why .

thanks in advance.
  

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Because the subordinating conjunction comes right after the subject. )

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  • Because the subordinating conjunction comes right after the subject.
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Because the subordinating conjunction comes right after the subject. In your example, "which" refers to subject, so nothing bad happens if it is omitted- we still have the subject(The book.)
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Seoul Brother The book (which) I was reading was interesting.I know object relative pronouns can be omitted .I am wondering why .thanks in advance.
You can drop the relative which if it is an object of the verb used in the relative clause. In other words, "I was reading the book" has an object, "the book", that is implied in the relative clause "...I wa
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