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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Omitted words?

Here is an excerpt from Steve Job's speech. "...On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind ( ) you might find yourself walking along if you wanted to see the world. "

I was just wondering what words were omitted in brackets between "the kind" and "you might find..." Is that a relative adverb, "where"? or a relative pronoun "which/that"?
So the sentence goes to - the kind (of a road where) you might find yourself walking along? OR
- the kind (of a road that/which) you might find yourself walking along?

If neither of the options is incorrect, what words are omitted?

Thanks in advance! Emotion: smile
  

Top answer

" Is that a relative adverb, "where"? or a relative pronoun "which/that"? It could be either if you wish to paraphrase, but Steve Jobs omitted nothing.

— Mister Micawber

  • " Is that a relative adverb, "where"?
  • or a relative pronoun "which/that"?
  • It could be either if you wish to paraphrase, but Steve Jobs omitted nothing.
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AnonymousI was just wondering what words were omitted in brackets between "the kind" and "you might find..." Is that a relative adverb, "where"? or a relative pronoun "which/that"?
It could be either if you wish to paraphrase, but Steve Jobs omitted nothing.
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Thanks, Mister Micawber. Emotion: smile
I know Steve Jobs didn't omit any words in the sentence. While I was teaching the omission of the rel
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You could say that the antecedent of the omitted word(s) is simply "road" (as I have), or the full NP ": "an early morning country road".

On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the [kind of road you might find yourself walking along if you wanted to see the world].

I'd analyse it as a bare (i.e. non-wh
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