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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

What

We prefer to use the present continuous when we say what someone has arranged to do.

Is "what" introducing fused relative construction or an indirect question in the above sentence?
  

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The former. You can think of it as ... the thing(s) that ...

— Fivejedjon

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The former. You can think of it as ... the thing(s) that ... .
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fivejedjonThe former. You can think of it as ... the thing(s) that ... .
Thank you for the reply.
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AnonymousIs "what" introducing fused relative construction or an indirect question in the above sentence?
I don't see any conflict with its being both. The verb 'say' can take an indirect question, and when that indirect question starts with 'what', it's going to take the form of a fused relative construction.

... when we say [how / when / where /
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CalifJimI don't see any conflict with its being both.
Thank you for the reply.
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CalifJim. Suppose someone has arranged to go shopping. What he has arranged to do is to go shopping. But we don't say "We say to go shopping".
No, but we can say 'The thing that he has arranged to fd is (to) go shopping'.
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