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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Is 'Which Are" Omitted?

Almost 20 major companies worried about a global semiconductor chip shortage that has roiled the automotive industry will send senior executives to a White House summit Monday, a senior official said on Friday.

Is 'Which Are" omitted in between companies and worried? If so, would it be impossible to use "worrying" instead of "worried"? Almost 20 major companies worrying about a global semiconductor chip shortage that has roiled the automotive industry will send senior executives to a White House summit Monday, a senior official said on Friday.


  

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anonymous Is 'Which Are" omitted in between companies and worried? You could say that, and that is what is meant, but I wouldn't say anything is really omitted. We can use an adjectival past participle phrase that way.

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  • anonymous Is 'Which Are" omitted in between companies and worried?
  • You could say that, and that is what is meant, but I wouldn't say anything is really omitted.
  • We can use an adjectival past participle phrase that way.
  • anonymous would it be impossible to use "worrying" instead of "worried" Sort of.
  • " The meaning is a bit off this way, though.
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anonymousIs 'Which Are" omitted in between companies and worried?

You could say that, and that is what is meant, but I wouldn't say anything is really omitted. We can use an adjectival past participle phrase that way.

anonymouswould it be impossible to use "worrying" instead of "worried"

Sort of. I think that would

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anonymousIs 'Which Are" omitted in between companies and worried?

You could say that. This transformation (removing wh- and a form of be, typically 'is') used to be called Whiz-Deletion. Lately, 'reduced relative clause' is fairly popular as a description of this structure. Modern grammars are pushing the term 'modifying participle clause',

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Of course, whether 'worried' is an adjective or a verb is independent of whether or not the structure in question is a reduced clause. Again, my instinct tells me that it isn't, but I don't know of any test to determine this, and H&P offer no explanation for their omission of the term anywhere in that tome of theirs. Does any modern grammar offer evidence against the reduced relative, or is th

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anonymousNo, but there cannot be facts about an imaginary construct like grammar. Applying grammar to English is like naming colors.

There can be objective truth within subjective domains, otherwise what's the point in creating them in the first place?


For the record, I was not being entirely serious in my earlier posts. They were self-satire, in

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