Clauses. please help!
Can you identify the type of clause used in each sentence:
1) The boy sitting next to her is my brother.
Is "sitting next to her" a relative defining (restirictive) clause? In which case why can the relative pronoun be omitted?
2) The man, having found a place to sit, opened his newspaper.
Is "having found a place to sit" an adverbial clause?
Please help!
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Anonymous 1) The boy sitting next to her is my brother. Is "sitting next to her" a relative defining (restrictive) clause? In which case why can the relative pronoun be omitted?
- Anonymous 1) The boy sitting next to her is my brother.
- Is "sitting next to her" a relative defining (restrictive) clause?
- In which case why can the relative pronoun be omitted?
- Yes, it is restrictive.
- It is a reduced relative clause.
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Anonymous1) The boy sitting next to her is my brother.
Is "sitting next to her" a relative defining (restrictive) clause? In which case why can the relative pronoun be omitted?
Yes, it is restrictive. It is a reduced relative clause. The reduction, as always, is created by means of "Whiz Deletion", that is, the removal of a question word (wh-wo
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