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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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relative clause

is the following sentence a relative clause?

the product of what is perhaps the only project in the world dedicated to breeding dogs solely to detect drugs.
  

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Anonymous: I s the following sentence a relative clause? the product of what is perhaps the only project in the world dedicated to breeding dogs solely to detect drugs It’s a noun phrase, not a sentence, containing an adjective phrase (underlined) that is semantically equivalent to a relative clause, modifying only project in the world. The words that/which is could be placed before dedicated without changing the meaning.

  • Anonymous: I s the following sentence a relative clause?
  • the product of what is perhaps the only project in the world dedicated to breeding dogs solely to detect drugs It’s a noun phrase, not a sentence, containing an adjective phrase (underlined) that is semantically equivalent to a relative clause, modifying only project in the world.
  • The words that/which is could be placed before dedicated without changing the meaning.
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Anonymous:Is the following sentence a relative clause?

the product of what is perhaps the only project in the world dedicated to breeding dogs solely to detect drugs
It’s a noun phrase, not a sentence, containing an adjective phrase (underlined) that is semantically equivalent to a relative clause,

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