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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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Nothing which needs to be brought to the attention

There is nothing which needs to be brought to the attention of the mass media.

Can I drop the relative pronoun which from the sentence and still have it grammatical?

(There is nothing needs to be brought to the attention of the mass media.)

  

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anonymous There is nothing which needs to be brought to the attention of the mass media. Can I drop the relative pronoun which from the sentence and still have it grammatical? ) No, not in standard written English, because 'which' is the subject of the relative clause.

  • anonymous There is nothing which needs to be brought to the attention of the mass media.
  • Can I drop the relative pronoun which from the sentence and still have it grammatical?
  • ) No, not in standard written English, because 'which' is the subject of the relative clause.
  • That construction is used in informal speech, but not generally.
  • It is distinctly regional and therefore rarely heard.
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anonymous

There is nothing which needs to be brought to the attention of the mass media.

Can I drop the relative pronoun which from the sentence and still have it grammatical?

(There is nothing needs to be brought to the attention of the mass media.)

No, not in standard written English, because 'which' is the subject o

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