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Qut Posted 21 years ago
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The radio, that most ubiquitous of consumer-electronic appliances, is about to enter a new age.

I find this sentence at the Cambridge dictionary, but as i know in non-restricted clause, we can't use "that" after a comma and so why the above sentence use "that" after the radio with the comma.

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), so the rule about commas and "that" does not apply. The phrase is in apposition to "the radio", and not a relative clause. CJ

— CalifJim

  • ), so the rule about commas and "that" does not apply.
  • The phrase is in apposition to "the radio", and not a relative clause.
  • CJ
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The phrase "that most ubiquitous of consumer electronic appliances" is not a clause (It has no verb.), so the rule about commas and "that" does not apply. The phrase is in apposition to "the radio", and not a relative clause.

CJ
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I agree with Jim. I think I'd take 'that' here as an adjective, rather than a pronoun.

MrP
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