Hello, my friends.
During my research about detailed structures, I have realized something.
I have posted a sentence from Mark Zuckerberg recently and we talked about it.
The original sentence: " There are mistakes in every year of Facebook's existence that could have killed us. "
I have started to encounter these kinds of sentences often.
The noun which "relative clause" wants to refer to, is in the middle but relative clause doesn't immediately come just after it, takes place at the end.
I am thinking that this situation often happens if the verb is stative.
Why am I thinking like this?
Let's change the sentence a bit.
Original one: "There are mistakes in every year of Facebook's existence that could have killed us."
1-) They are mistakes in every year of Facebook's existence that could have killed us.
2-) We have mistakes in every year of Facebook's existence that could have killed us.
3-) Our decisions include mistakes in every year of Facebook's existence that could have killed us.
4-) Facebook consists of mistakes in every year of its existence that could have killed us.
5-) We made mistakes in every year of Facebook's existence that could have killed us.
6-) We corrected mistakes in every year of Facebook's existence that could have killed us.
(1-2-3-4) Stative, (5-6) Action verbs.
Of course, I am not sure about my opinion because I am not a native speaker.
But according to my observation,
While examples(1-2-3-4) seem to be natural and good, other examples(5-6) doesn't seem to be natural.
I feel as if in 5-6, relative clauses should immediately come after the word they will define.
What are your thoughts?
Thank you.
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