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Bizgiant Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
How to analyze this sentence?
Hello forums,
Please help me analyze this relative clause.
"Medicare,where the same people who screamed about death panels are now trying to dismantle the whole program, was the most obvious."
#1 where: Is this an unrestricted relative clause introduced by relative adv. where?
The same people who screamed about death panels in the medicare reform, so where = in which?
#2 the same people who screamed.... yes no doubt about this one. I know the same as can also be used in relative clause like I want to use the same dictionary as was used yesterday. so if the main word refers to a thing not people, does that mean the same .... as have to be used together.
Please help me analyze this relative clause.
"Medicare,where the same people who screamed about death panels are now trying to dismantle the whole program, was the most obvious."
#1 where: Is this an unrestricted relative clause introduced by relative adv. where?
The same people who screamed about death panels in the medicare reform, so where = in which?
#2 the same people who screamed.... yes no doubt about this one. I know the same as can also be used in relative clause like I want to use the same dictionary as was used yesterday. so if the main word refers to a thing not people, does that mean the same .... as have to be used together.
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Welcome to the forums. I don't understand the author's use of "where" in this passage. Yes, your sense of "in which" or "for which" is on the right track, but that wouldn't have it either.
- Welcome to the forums.
- I don't understand the author's use of "where" in this passage.
- Yes, your sense of "in which" or "for which" is on the right track, but that wouldn't have it either.
- It's a passage that presents problems because of the desire to made Medicare the subject of the sentence.
- That would require a passive construction, but "Medicare is trying to be dismantled" doesn't work, so you need the people trying to dismantle it as the subject of a clause.
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Welcome to the forums.
I don't understand the author's use of "where" in this passage. Yes, your sense of "in which" or "for which" is on the right track, but that wouldn't have it either.
It's a passage that presents problems because of the desire to made Medicare the subject of the sentence. That would require a passive construction, but "Medicare is trying to be dismantled" do
I don't understand the author's use of "where" in this passage. Yes, your sense of "in which" or "for which" is on the right track, but that wouldn't have it either.
It's a passage that presents problems because of the desire to made Medicare the subject of the sentence. That would require a passive construction, but "Medicare is trying to be dismantled" do
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bizgiantIs this an unrestricted relative clause introduced by relative adv. where?'non-restrictive' or 'non-defining'. Yes.
bizgiantso where = in which?I'd say where = about which (program) in this case. (This is a somewhat unusual sentence. It's in a fairly cas
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