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Hans51 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Convenience store, airport security, book store with relative clauses
I have learned that relative clauses modify the head of noun phrases, not the noun phrases like
"A smart man who can speak English"
Here, who can speak English modifies just man, not a smart man.
And then I was wondering if noun phrases used like one word such as convenience store, airport security, book store, etc are the ones that are modified by relative clauses like there is a convenience store that I like the most and about the airport security that is going on
Here in the sentence, that I like the most modifies store or convenience store or either way is fine and there isn't any meaning difference whichever one it modifies?
Here in the sentence, that is going on modifies airport security or security or or either way is fine and there isn't any meaning difference whichever one it modifies?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance.
"A smart man who can speak English"
Here, who can speak English modifies just man, not a smart man.
And then I was wondering if noun phrases used like one word such as convenience store, airport security, book store, etc are the ones that are modified by relative clauses like there is a convenience store that I like the most and about the airport security that is going on
Here in the sentence, that I like the most modifies store or convenience store or either way is fine and there isn't any meaning difference whichever one it modifies?
Here in the sentence, that is going on modifies airport security or security or or either way is fine and there isn't any meaning difference whichever one it modifies?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance.
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Hans51 "A smart man who can speak English"Here, who can speak English modifies just man, not a smart man. I agree. Hans51 Here in the sentence, that I like the most modifies store or convenience store or either way is fine and there isn't any meaning difference whichever one it modifies?
- Hans51 "A smart man who can speak English"Here, who can speak English modifies just man, not a smart man.
- I agree.
- Hans51 Here in the sentence, that I like the most modifies store or convenience store or either way is fine and there isn't any meaning difference whichever one it modifies?
- convenience store Hans51 Here in the sentence, that is going on modifies airport security or security or or either way is fine and there isn't any meaning difference whichever one it modifies?
- airport security Hans51 What do you native English speakers think?
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Hans51"A smart man who can speak English"Here, who can speak English modifies just man, not a smart man.I agree.
Hans51Here in the sentence, that I like the most modifies store or convenience store or either way is fine and there isn't any meaning difference whichever one it modifies?convenience store
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Thank you so much and I have one more question, so when the relative clauses modify the noun phrases 'convenience store' and 'airport security', is there a meaning difference when the relative clauses modify 'store' and 'security' and 'convenience' and 'airport' modify 'store' and 'security' respectively?
To make it simpler, can there be a meaning difference when we consider the noun phra
To make it simpler, can there be a meaning difference when we consider the noun phra
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To me, the clauses cannot modify 'store' or 'security' alone in those sentences.
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Thank you so much!
There still remains some confusion but I totally agree with you.
If I considered the two-noun noun 'convenience store' to be modified by 'convenience' before 'store' and the relative clause 'that I like the most' behind respectively like
convenience -> store
could there be a meaning difference from 'convenience
There still remains some confusion but I totally agree with you.
If I considered the two-noun noun 'convenience store' to be modified by 'convenience' before 'store' and the relative clause 'that I like the most' behind respectively like
convenience -> store
could there be a meaning difference from 'convenience
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Sorry, but there was something odd about your punctuation with arrows, which were some sort of HTML code also. Please re-post with spaces. However, I must tell you that I don't understand your arrow system anyway.
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