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Beopro Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
To get home = who gets home?
1. The girl watching TV is my daughter.
- I saw this sentence in an English book, why don't we say "The girl who's watching TV is my daughter"?
2. The last person to get home should turn out the lights.
- In this sentence also, why don't we say "The last person who gets home should turn out the lights"?
Thank you very much, Teachers
Beopro
- I saw this sentence in an English book, why don't we say "The girl who's watching TV is my daughter"?
2. The last person to get home should turn out the lights.
- In this sentence also, why don't we say "The last person who gets home should turn out the lights"?
Thank you very much, Teachers
Beopro
Top answer
Participial and infinitive phrases may stand alone as adjectival modifiers. You may prefer to make them into relative clauses by adding the relative pronoun and the verb. That's simply another alternative.
- Participial and infinitive phrases may stand alone as adjectival modifiers.
- You may prefer to make them into relative clauses by adding the relative pronoun and the verb.
- That's simply another alternative.
- The car [which is] speeding by belongs to my son.
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Participial and infinitive phrases may stand alone as adjectival modifiers.
You may prefer to make them into relative clauses by adding the relative pronoun and the verb.
That's simply another alternative.
The car [which is] speeding by belongs to my son.
You may prefer to make them into relative clauses by adding the relative pronoun and the verb.
That's simply another alternative.
The car [which is] speeding by belongs to my son.
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