Attributive clause?
The behaviour of the lights was sometimes akin to that of a shy young child (ushered into a noisy room of grown-ups after dinner) to perform.
I quote the above sentence from The Scole Report.
Is the part in brackets an attributive clause with "who was" having been dropped? I think it should be "... child who was ushered into...", right?
Thank you.
Top answer
zuotengdazuo (ushered into a noisy room of grown-ups after dinner) It is a reduced relative clause. The relative pronoun and helping verb have been omitted.
- zuotengdazuo (ushered into a noisy room of grown-ups after dinner) It is a reduced relative clause.
- The relative pronoun and helping verb have been omitted.
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zuotengdazuo(ushered into a noisy room of grown-ups after dinner)
It is a reduced relative clause. The relative pronoun and helping verb have been omitted.
0The behaviour of the lights was sometimes akin to that of a shy young child (ushered into a noisy room of grown-ups after dinner) to perform.
The expression in brackets is a past participial clause. In a construction like this one, the clause would normally be functioning as a modifier of "shy young child" and be semantically like a relative clause. But since it has been parenthes
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