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| Feb 28, 2016 at 17:03 | comment | added | lynn | Interestingly, if the inner-most noun of such a three-level embedding is I, then the sentence can be quite readable. The cars people I hate drive are loud. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 18:53 | comment | added | WinnieNicklaus | +1 for getting the whole point of the sentence, which was not to express the thought most clearly but to demonstrate a fact about our language faculties. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 15:06 | comment | added | Marc van Leeuwen | @user21820: If it really bugs you, and if you find the result more readable, you may take out the comma that precedes "that". I indicated the restrictive use of the clause is by using "that" rather than "which" there, though I am aware that opinions differ on this point. My commas are used just to mark a pause and delimit that clause, and I'll do that when I feel it helps reading a sentence, regardless of any grammatical rules. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 14:35 | comment | added | user21820 | Unfortunately, your transformed sentence now says something completely different because the relative clause has become an unrestrictive one implying that all women are as described, while the original did not. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 10:08 | history | answered | Marc van Leeuwen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |