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Jigneshbharati Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

That you have got

If there’s one thing that you’ve got to experience in Ireland, it’s being out with basking sharks on a fine day." ??
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(Via BBC Northern Ireland)

Is "that you have got to experience in Ireland" a dependent clause which seems like a relative clause functioning like a noun I.e a noun clause and "that" a relative pronoun?

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It is a relative clause. I don't see how it is "functioning like a noun". It seems ambiguous to me whether "in Ireland" is part of the relative clause or not.

— GPY

  • It is a relative clause.
  • I don't see how it is "functioning like a noun".
  • It seems ambiguous to me whether "in Ireland" is part of the relative clause or not.
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It is a relative clause. I don't see how it is "functioning like a noun".

It seems ambiguous to me whether "in Ireland" is part of the relative clause or not.

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It is just a standard defining relative clause, modifying the noun "thing."

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Jigneshbharatia relative clause functioning like a noun I.e a noun clause

A relative clause, by definition, modifies a noun or pronoun. It is like an adjective.

It never has the function of a noun in a sentence (subject, object).

Noun clauses have the function of subject or object (complement.)

I know that Jim is a good man
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