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Futurehuman11 Posted 18 years ago
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0 Is the cause that begins with a preposition (in bold) in the following sentence considered relitive? Sometimes it seems like clauses that begin with prepositions aren't essential but are aren't treated as such because a comma isn't added. 02 br
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00 She had a fire in her eyes that had not been seen since she wrote her Ph.D. thesis 01 b 00 on 02 b 00 Blackness at Princeton. 0-
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00 She had a fire in her eyes that had not been seen since she wrote her Ph.D. thesis 01 b 00 on 02 b 00 Blackness at Princeton. 0-
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D. thesis will write only one, so it shouldn't need to be restrictive, but the phrase itself is odd. Was the thesis topic "Blackness at Princeton"?
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- thesis will write only one, so it shouldn't need to be restrictive, but the phrase itself is odd.
- Was the thesis topic "Blackness at Princeton"?
- 02 br 02 br 00 You can include the comma.
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0 Most people who write a Ph.D. thesis will write only one, so it shouldn't need to be restrictive, but the phrase itself is odd. Was the thesis topic "Blackness at Princeton"? I suspect it was simply "Blackness" and she wrote it at Princeton. 02 br
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00 You can include the comma. ... since she wrote her Ph.D. thesis, on Blackness, when she was at Princeton. 0-
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00 You can include the comma. ... since she wrote her Ph.D. thesis, on Blackness, when she was at Princeton. 0-
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01 cite 10 Futurehuman11 12 cite 10 Is the c 11 font 11 b 10 l 12 b 12 font 10 ause that begins with a preposition ... 12 blockquote10 No such thing. Clauses don't begin with prepositions. Prepositional phrases are not clauses, and certainly not relative clauses. Preposi
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