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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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It was launched on September 27, 2006, and the event coincided...

1b01font00It was launched on September 27, 2006, and the event coincided with the ABC series 01font01i00being played02i02font00 in Australia.02font02b02br
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00The above sentence doesn't seem grammatically correct to me. I think 01b01i00which was02i02b00 should be used before 01i00being played02i00... I have seen many other plenty of sentences where 01i00which was/were02i00 is omitted.02br
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01font00It was launched on September 27, 2006, and the event coincided with the ABC series 01b01i01u00which was02u00 being played02i02b00 in Australia.02font0-
  

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0Hi.02br
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00You only need the 'which was' if you want to distinguish between this ABC series and other ABC series being played in other countries.02br
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00The use of 'being verbed' is perfectly correct.0-
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0 Omitting 01i00which is, which was, which is, which are, which were, who is, who was, ...02i00 is so common that it even has a name: Whiz-Deletion. Whiz stands for 01b00wh02b00ich 01b00is02b00.02br
00 It is completely grammatical. It is not a mistake.02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10Omitting 11i10which is, which was, which is, which are, which were, who is, who was, ...12i10 is so common that it even has a name: Whiz-Deletion.12br
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10Do you mean it is just a convention to omit 01i
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0 I suppose you could call it a convention. Omitting those words may be done at the beginning of a relative clause, but it is not required, of course. In the example you gave, it was 01u00not02u00 a mistake to omit those words.02br
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