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Kayoh Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Is there any relative pronoun omitted?

0I came across the sentence as follows, and I cannot make out its structure.02br
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00[ That was some quick thinking you did. ]02br
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00The situation is like this. "I" did a marvelous thing to help "you" in danger.02br
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00And "you" thanked me and said as above.02br
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00What's the relation between the clauses, That was some quick thinking and02br
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00you did ? 02br
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00I thank you in advance.0-
  

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0 I don't think anything's missing. 01i 02br 02br 00 You reacted, and you reacted quickly. 02i 02br 00 Same meaning.

— Marius Hancu

  • 0 I don't think anything's missing.
  • 01i 02br 02br 00 You reacted, and you reacted quickly.
  • 02i 02br 00 Same meaning.
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0 I don't think anything's missing. 01i02br
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00 You reacted, and you reacted quickly. 02i02br
00 Same meaning. 02br
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00 Or: 02br
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01i00You did indeed some quick thinking.02i0-
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01cite10Kayoh12cite10I came across the sentence as follows, and I cannot make out its structure.12br
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10[ That was some quick thinking you did. ]12br
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10The situation is like this. "I" did a marvelous thing to help "you" in danger.12br
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10And "you" thanked me and s
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0 You did thinking. It was quick thinking.02br
00 That (that thinking which you did) was quick thinking.02br
00 That was quick thinking (that thinking which you did).02br
00 That was some quick thinking (that thinking which you did).02br
00 That was some quick thinking (that which) you did.02br
00 That was some quick thinking you
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01cite10Kayoh12cite10I came across the sentence as follows, and I cannot make out its structure.12br
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10[ That was some quick thinking you did. ]12br
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10The situation is like this. "I" did a marvelous thing to help "you" in danger.12br
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10And "you" thanked me and s
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0 Thank you very much. Of the four answers I got, I thought your answer was most comprehensible to me. 0-
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In formal English the correct order would be: "You did some quick thinking". However, in that context (helping someone in danger), the emphasis is on the action (=THAT), and "THAT" stands for "What you did", that is, "What you did was something that required quick thinking". In informal language, most especially in contexts such as this, economy of language and reverse word order occurs quite freq
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