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Voynich Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Strange sentence structure


She extended a hand the color of cream.
How should I analyze this sentence structure? It appears that "the color of cream" modifies "a hand but it looks very rare and weird to me.
  

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She extended a hand [which was] the color of cream.

— Mister Micawber

  • She extended a hand [which was] the color of cream.
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She extended a hand [which was] the color of cream.
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Is this kind of omission rare to happen? I've never come across sentences omitting relative pronoun and copula at once when the complement is a noun.
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voynichIs this kind of omission rare to happen?
No, I don't think so. At least, it sounds perfectly normal to me.
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