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What you say is true.
Is What both an object and fused relative in the subject of the sentence above?
Is What both an object and fused relative in the subject of the sentence above?
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Anonymous Is What both an object and fused relative in the subject of the sentence above? Yes. But if you want to split apart 'what' into 'that which', only the 'that' part of the fused structure is the subject of the sentence, and only the 'which' part is the object of the relative clause.
- Anonymous Is What both an object and fused relative in the subject of the sentence above?
- Yes.
- But if you want to split apart 'what' into 'that which', only the 'that' part of the fused structure is the subject of the sentence, and only the 'which' part is the object of the relative clause.
- That [which you say] is true.
- CJ
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AnonymousIs What both an object and fused relative in the subject of the sentence above?Yes. But if you want to split apart 'what' into 'that which', only the 'that' part of the fused structure is the subject of the sentence, and only the 'which' part is the object of the relative clause.
That [which you say] is true.
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