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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Relative clauses at the end

The relative clauses below are at the end of the sentences.

1. The helicopter hovered above them bristling with machine guns. (non-finite)

2. I do not care about anything bad that you are being up to. (finite)

I find them weird because I have not seen these sorts of examples before. Are they correct?
  

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Hi, The relative clauses below are at the end of the sentences. 1. The helicopter hovered above them , bristling with machine guns .

— Clive

  • Hi, The relative clauses below are at the end of the sentences.
  • 1.
  • The helicopter hovered above them , bristling with machine guns .
  • (non-finite) 2.
  • I do not care about anything bad that you are being up to .
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Hi,

The relative clauses below are at the end of the sentences.

1. The helicopter hovered above them, bristling with machine guns. (non-finite)

2. I do not care about anything bad that you are being up to. (finite)

I find them weird because I have not seen these sorts of examples before. Are they correct?

Yes. There's
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I would like to add to Clive's good reply that there is no relative clause in sentence No. 1. A relative clause usually begins with a relative pronoun which refers to something that precedes it in a sentence. By its very nature a relative clause normally follows the main clause. Offhand, I can think of only one type of relative clause that precedes the mai
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