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Debpriya De Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Relative clause
"The team, the players of which are returning home, has been disqualified."
Is the above sentence grammatically correct ?
Is the underlined part a relative clause ?
Is the above sentence grammatically correct ?
Is the underlined part a relative clause ?
Top answer
Yes it is correct. Yes it is a relative clause. It is an unrestrictive relative clause.
- Yes it is correct.
- Yes it is a relative clause.
- It is an unrestrictive relative clause.
- This means it can be left out of the sentence without changing the meaning.
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Yes it is correct.
Yes it is a relative clause. It is an unrestrictive relative clause. This means it can be left out of the sentence without changing the meaning.
Yes it is a relative clause. It is an unrestrictive relative clause. This means it can be left out of the sentence without changing the meaning.
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Debpriya De"The team, the players of which are returning home, has been disqualified."Is the above sentence grammatically correct ?Is the underlined part a relative clause ?It's OK, but note that there is an alternate way to say the same thing.
The team, whose players are returning home, has been disqualified.
And more to the point, I
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