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English 1b3 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Reduced adverbial clause with although

Although only formally established as a discipline within the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences in April 2000, Nutrition has been an implicit feature of much of the research done in this Faculty for many years.

I read the above sentence and realized the subject (Nutrition) and verb (was) are missing in the adverbial clause.

1) I didn't think adverbial clauses beginning with 'although' could be reduced. Is the verb to be an exception, since I know that other verbs cannot be reduced when although is the subordinator?

Although I walked home, I..

Although walking home



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2) It isn't a reduced adverbial, but is it just a simple ellipsis?

it is best to avoid placing it before the subject as (I have) done in the original above?



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Top answer

I'm not following this. Maybe I'm not familiar with your terminology or analytical method. Is there a strict definition of "reduce" that you are using?

— CalifJim

  • I'm not following this.
  • Maybe I'm not familiar with your terminology or analytical method.
  • Is there a strict definition of "reduce" that you are using?
  • If so, what is it?
  • Similarly for "ellipsis".
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I'm not following this. Maybe I'm not familiar with your terminology or analytical method.

Is there a strict definition of "reduce" that you are using? If so, what is it?
Similarly for "ellipsis". What definition are you using?

Is there a precise way to distinguish one from the other? (Because I have always thought that both reduction and ellipsis involved the omitting
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Very sorry, CJ.

Question 2 relates to the sentence below it. The sentence below it is made up and has nothing to do with the former question. It is only similar in that they both are discussing reductions.

Ignore my terminology. When you search reduced adverbial clauses, they use the term reduction, so I assumed this term was used specifically for certain structures, whereas I a
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English 1b3When you search reduced adverbial clauses, they use the term reduction, so I assumed this term was used specifically for certain structures, whereas I assumed the term ellipsis was more the reduction of any word(s) of any structure, when the words aren't necessary as they are obvious to the reader.
Yes. Actually, that rings true to me. I, too, hea
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CalifJim
But I still don't quite understand the first question. Is there a list somewhere of the kinds of clauses (when, although, after, since, etc.) paired up with the ways each can or cannot be reduced, for example, with respect to the verb to be or with respect to omitting the subject and so on? I have never seen a list like that, but I wouldn't mi
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English 1b3So have you any idea why the one crossed out doesn't work but the rest do?
No. None. Not at all. This is the sort of thing I was talking about earlier when I said that some scholars somewhere have probably studied this -- but not me.
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CalifJim
English 1b3So have you any idea why the one crossed out doesn't work but the rest do?
No. None. Not at all. This is the sort of thing I was talking about earlier when I said that some scholars somewhere have probably studied this -- but not me.
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