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Jooney Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Participial clause or reduced relative clause
Hi,
Hi,
Memories are still fresh of the Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit filed in April 2010 accusing Goldman of fraud, after it sold clients complicated mortgage backed securities that later soured, and never mentioned that it had bet against them.
Q) Is the underlined part a reduced relative clause or a participial clause?
A: Memories are still fresh of the lawsuit that was filed and was accusing Goldman of fraud.
B: Memories are still fresh of the lawsuit that was filed accusing Goldman of fraud.
Which is correct?
I'd appreciate your answer.
Hi,
Memories are still fresh of the Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit filed in April 2010 accusing Goldman of fraud, after it sold clients complicated mortgage backed securities that later soured, and never mentioned that it had bet against them.
Q) Is the underlined part a reduced relative clause or a participial clause?
A: Memories are still fresh of the lawsuit that was filed and was accusing Goldman of fraud.
B: Memories are still fresh of the lawsuit that was filed accusing Goldman of fraud.
Which is correct?
I'd appreciate your answer.
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jooney Q) Is the underlined part a reduced relative clause or a participial clause? Hmm. Does it always have to be one or the other?
- jooney Q) Is the underlined part a reduced relative clause or a participial clause?
- Hmm.
- Does it always have to be one or the other?
- Is this what Huddleston or some other expert says?
- Both A and B seem possible, but B seems closer to the meaning intended, so I'd say "participial clause" if I absolutely had to choose.
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jooneyQ) Is the underlined part a reduced relative clause or a participial clause?Hmm. Does it always have to be one or the other? Is this what Huddleston or some other expert says?
Both A and B seem possible, but B seems closer to the meaning intended, so I'd say "participial clause" if I absolutely had to choose. I'm going only by intuition. I
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A: Memories are still fresh of the lawsuit that was filed and was accusing Goldman of fraud.B: Memories are still fresh of the lawsuit that was filed accusing Goldman of fraud.In fact, B is the reduced version of A.
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Is this what Huddleston or some other expert says?
Not that I know of.
Not that I know of.
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B: Thornstein treated his students with care and listened to their questions and helped them understand their relavancy theory. (taken form a linguist's paper)
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B: Thornstein treated his students with care and listened to their questions and helped them understand their relavancy theory. (taken form a linguist's paper)
The linguist argues that these two sentences are not identical in meaning. While A specifi
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