Relative Clause

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Aho, a Kiowa matriarch, held festivals in her home that featured the preparation of great quantities of ceremonial food, the wearing of many layers of colorful clothing adorned with silver, and the recounting of traditional tribal jokes and stories.

1.is relative clause that featured..... dangling here.... ?

2.Can it refer back to festivals ... since in her home is a prep phrase and can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence?

Cool Breeze · Accepted Answer

1. Common sense says the antecedent of that is festivals.I don't think the relative clause dangles in any way.

2. What else could it refer to? Ceremonial food, colorful clothing and tribal jokes and stories are all more easily associated with festivals than a home. One often has to resort to common sense in English in cases like this. In this particular case any possible problems arise from the fact that English relative pronouns never distinguish between singular and plural:

The boy who came is my friend.

The boys who came are my friends.

That makes learning the language easy but English is also a little inexact at times.

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