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Hans51 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Around 80 rescuers and divers looking for
Coast Guard are carrying out a major search operation with around 80 rescuers and divers looking for those still unaccounted for.
I saw this sentence in a news article and I was wondering if looking for those still unaccounted for modifies around 80 rescuers and divers and a relative clause such as who are is omitted like divers who are looking for
Or it is a sort of participle construction like
Coast Guard are carrying out a major search operation when / while /as around 80 rescuers and divers are looking for those still unaccounted for.
Or are both possible and natural? Which one is a correct way of analyzing the original sentence?
What do you native English speakers think?
Thank you so much as usual!
I saw this sentence in a news article and I was wondering if looking for those still unaccounted for modifies around 80 rescuers and divers and a relative clause such as who are is omitted like divers who are looking for
Or it is a sort of participle construction like
Coast Guard are carrying out a major search operation when / while /as around 80 rescuers and divers are looking for those still unaccounted for.
Or are both possible and natural? Which one is a correct way of analyzing the original sentence?
What do you native English speakers think?
Thank you so much as usual!
Top answer
Hans51 participle construction There are two participle clauses here, one inside the other. looking for those still unaccounted for still unaccounted for Both can be seen as reduced relative clauses. who are looking for those who are still unaccounted for Hans51 Or are both possible and natural?
- Hans51 participle construction There are two participle clauses here, one inside the other.
- looking for those still unaccounted for still unaccounted for Both can be seen as reduced relative clauses.
- who are looking for those who are still unaccounted for Hans51 Or are both possible and natural?
- Which one is a correct way of analyzing the original sentence?
- We normally analyze what it actually printed; less often, what is missing.
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Hans51participle constructionThere are two participle clauses here, one inside the other.
looking for those still unaccounted for
still unaccounted for
Both can be seen as reduced relative clauses.
who are looking for those who are still unaccounted for
Hans51Or are both possible and natural? Which one is
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Thank you so much!
And then when I think that around 80 rescuers and divers is the subject of the first participle clause or who are looking for those who are still unaccounted for, can I say that the both carry the same meaning?
Thank you so much again.
And then when I think that around 80 rescuers and divers is the subject of the first participle clause or who are looking for those who are still unaccounted for, can I say that the both carry the same meaning?
Thank you so much again.
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Hans51can I say that the both carry the same meaning?Yes, that's right.
CJ
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