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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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"When the shadow minister whose brief this includes fails to realise this, we have some idea of the scale of the problem." (The Guardian.)

Is "this" a direct object of the verb "includes" in the relative clause "whose brief [a short statement (tweet)] this includes" in the above sentence?
  

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Anonymous Is "this" a direct object of the verb "includes" in the relative clause "whose brief [a short statement (tweet)] this includes " in the above sentence? this = subject includes = verb brief = object

  • Anonymous Is "this" a direct object of the verb "includes" in the relative clause "whose brief [a short statement (tweet)] this includes " in the above sentence?
  • this = subject includes = verb brief = object
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AnonymousIs "this" a direct object of the verb "includes" in the relative clause "whose brief [a short statement (tweet)] this includes" in the above sentence?
this = subject
includes = verb
brief = object

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