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Hasibrahman Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Meet the...

Do these have the same meaning?

1) Meet the sniffer dogs being trained to detect whether someone has coronavirus in less than a second.
2) Meet the sniffer dogs which are being trained to detect whether someone has coronavirus in less than a second.
  

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Hasibrahman Do these have the same meaning? Yes. , is , from the beginning of a relative clause.

  • Hasibrahman Do these have the same meaning?
  • Yes.
  • , is , from the beginning of a relative clause.
  • Others refer to it as a reduced relative clause.
  • CJ
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HasibrahmanDo these have the same meaning?

Yes.

Some grammarians have called this "Whiz Deletion", i.e., the removal of a wh-word (who or which) and a form of be, e.g., is, from the beginning of a relative clause. Others refer to it as a reduced relative clause.

CJ

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