Omit a subject relative pronoun and an immediately following auxiliary verb?
Hi. Recently I find in some cases, in a relative clause, we can omit a subject relative pronoun and an immediately following auxiliary verb.
It seems that I can conclude that, for some specific intransitive verbs, such as come, go, grow, return, arrive, etc, when they are used in the past participle with the verb be antecedent as active-intransitive and appear in the relative clause, we can omit the verb be and the subject relative pronoun.
Does this conclusion make sense?
I make a sentence according to the conclusion:
These tourists, just arrived at the destination, were tired.
Is it right?
Thank you.
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zuotengdazuo These tourists, just arrived at the destination, were tired. I see "[who] just arrived at the destination" as a reduced relative non-defining clause and "arrived" as a finite verb, not a past participle.
- zuotengdazuo These tourists, just arrived at the destination, were tired.
- I see "[who] just arrived at the destination" as a reduced relative non-defining clause and "arrived" as a finite verb, not a past participle.
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zuotengdazuoThese tourists, just arrived at the destination, were tired.I see "[who] just arrived at the destination" as a reduced relative non-defining clause and "arrived" as a finite verb, not a past participle.
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