Typo edit: <there a guy in our class has a an ¡Phone> there a guy in our class has an ¡Phone Aplogies.
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AlienvoordBut if "who/which/that" stands for the subject, you cannot omit it in standard English.I agree to a large extent. However, some writers do omit the relative even then. I remember a couple of sentences:
Cool Breeze"All stories [that are] long enough end in death."
Ernest Hemingway
Since the verb is omitted too, that's a different construction.
Then how about these?
All taking drugs will be prevented from participating.
All found guilty of drug abuse will be charged.
All entering must produce the correct pap
AnonymousOmission of "that" is common in spoken English in such constructions as these:I wouldn't call those examples realistic; and I wouldn't call it a particularly common construction in spoken
the bloke came to stay with us was from Africa
we had this African bloke came to stay
there a guy in our class has a an ¡Phone