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Amir Oghlow Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

That

"Here and there chains and nets may upset the stability of the submarine, hydroplanes notwithstanding."
I saw a sentence written like that.
But I'm wondering why they didn't write "that". For example, "...that may upset..."?
  

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"chains and nets may upset the stability of the submarine" is a statement. "chains and nets that may upset the stability of the submarine" is a noun phrase. So, if you insert the word "that", it ceases to be a complete sentence (has no main verb).

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  • "chains and nets may upset the stability of the submarine" is a statement.
  • "chains and nets that may upset the stability of the submarine" is a noun phrase.
  • So, if you insert the word "that", it ceases to be a complete sentence (has no main verb).
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"chains and nets may upset the stability of the submarine" is a statement.

"chains and nets that may upset the stability of the submarine" is a noun phrase.

So, if you insert the word "that", it ceases to be a complete sentence (has no main verb).
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Chains and nets may upset the stability...
The main verb is upset.
Chains and nets that may upset...
The noun phrase is "that may..."
Is it correct?

My second question is that they wrote "here and there"
So, I think we need to write "that"
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Amir OghlowChains and nets may upset the stability...The main verb is upset.
Yes.
Amir OghlowChains and nets that may upset...The noun phrase is "that may..."
No, the noun phrase is "chains and nets that may upset ...". The head noun is "chains and nets". "that may upset ..." is a relative clause that modifies "chains and ne
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