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Ha anh Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Adjective
I would like to ask you this question, I saw this sentence on the internet: "All we want is someone competent to manage the staff". Why it's not "someone who is competent to...."? Because I think "competent" is an adjective. Thank you for helping me.
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"? It is a reduced clause. For a cleaner style, we often just omit 'who is'.
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- It is a reduced clause.
- For a cleaner style, we often just omit 'who is'.
- Incidentally, there is another reduced clause in the same sentence: All [ that ] we want is someone [ who is ] competent to manage the staff.
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ha anhWhy it's not "someone who is competent to...."?
It is a reduced clause. For a cleaner style, we often just omit 'who is'. Incidentally, there is another reduced clause in the same sentence:
All [that] we want is someone [who is] competent to manage the staff.
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