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Hans51 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

The boy.....playing scccer... is my son.

The boy.....playing scccer... is my son.

The phone.....broken yesterday by it....was my phone.


When some native English speakers put a pause in front of 'playing soccer' and 'broken yesterday by it', do you native English speakers feel a comma or just know they modify 'boy' and 'phone' behind like defining relative clauses 'The boy who is playing soccer is my son' and 'The phone which was broken yesterday by it was my phone'?


What do you native English speakers think?


Thank you so much as usual in advance!

  

Top answer

was my phone. I cannot imagine a native speaker producing that sentence, sorry. was mine.

  • was my phone.
  • I cannot imagine a native speaker producing that sentence, sorry.
  • was mine.
  • The phone which it broke yesterday was mine .
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Hans51The phone.....broken yesterday by it....was my phone.

I cannot imagine a native speaker producing that sentence, sorry. Will you accept this one instead?—

The phone...it broke yesterday...was mine.

The phone which it broke yesterday was mine.

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