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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

The adverb 'that'

I have extracted the below sentence on the Online Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.

A report yesterday that said British unemployment would continue to rise.

This is URL of that: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/american-cobuild-learners/would?showCookiePolicy=true

See the second usage.


Is it possible the adverb 'that' modify a verb in as the above sentence, or is the above sentence is only the noun phrase?


In advance, Thank you for your help.
  

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park sang joon A report yesterday that said British unemployment would continue to rise. I cannot find that noun phrase at the link you have given us. It is not a sentence.

  • park sang joon A report yesterday that said British unemployment would continue to rise.
  • I cannot find that noun phrase at the link you have given us.
  • It is not a sentence.
  • Could it contain a typographical error?
  • A report yesterday said that British unemployment would continue to rise.
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park sang joonA report yesterday that said British unemployment would continue to rise.
I cannot find that noun phrase at the link you have given us. It is not a sentence. Could it contain a typographical error?

A report yesterday said that British unemployment would continue to rise.
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Oh, I'm sorry; my mistake.
I will re-link.
This is the URL: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-cobuild-learners/would?showCookiePolicy=true

See the last sentence of the first usage.
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I guess I didn't need the link. As I said, it's a noun phrase.
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If so, why does the sentence have the punctuation 'period'.
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park sang joon why does the sentence have the punctuation 'period'.
Either Collins' editorial policy or an editorial oversight. It is just a dictionary entry, not a sentence in a formal text, so don't worry if you meet such again.
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I have seen incomplete sentence in several dictionaries so many times, so I always wondered that.
Thank you Mister Micawber for your advice.

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