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Abbas Rajabpour Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Reducing relative clauses

Can the following sentence be changed to a reduced adjective caluse?(Why not?)


I went to a hospital that was really equipped.

  

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Abbas Rajabpour I went to a hospital that was really equipped. 'that was really equipped' is not idiomatic English. Let's say 'that was well equipped'.

— CalifJim

  • Abbas Rajabpour I went to a hospital that was really equipped.
  • 'that was really equipped' is not idiomatic English.
  • Let's say 'that was well equipped'.
  • Here you have only the participle 'equipped', nothing more.
  • That will reduce like this, with the participle-adjective before the noun: I went to a hospital that was well equipped.
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Abbas RajabpourI went to a hospital that was really equipped.

'that was really equipped' is not idiomatic English. Let's say 'that was well equipped'.

Here you have only the participle 'equipped', nothing more. That will reduce like this, with the participle-adjective before the noun:

I went to a hospital that was well equipped.

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