Timeline for Help with relative clause questions?
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| Dec 10 at 13:42 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Araucaria [1] Which-clauses after a NP/DetP being classed as relative clauses having already been covered on ELU? / [2] Not bothering to find a duplicate for 'I love this chair, which my father bought last year' ... [Is] the clause ... starting with "which" in the ... sentence above [a] relative clause ...? I've found two for other questions. I consider that question too basic for a site 'aimed at linguists and other proficient Anglophones. / [3] ELL being open to non- E-S-L users? / [4] ELL having been introduced to deal with the more basic requests many may have? All problems? | |
| Dec 10 at 13:22 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @EdwinAshworth I don't agree with anything you've said, unfortunately. | |
| Dec 9 at 0:06 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Araucaria - Him I think it's taken for granted now that anyone is welcome to ask a more basic question (hardly suitable for 'linguists / serious English language soeakers') on ELL. I gathered that the primary aim of ELL when set up was to handle more basic questions. Certainly there used to be a 'too basic' transfer option / CV on ELU. // In any case, perhaps you could suggest to OP a duplicate on ELU where prototypical relative clauses have already been covered. There are bound to be some that haven't been closed. | |
| Dec 8 at 22:46 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @EdwinAshworth Native speakers are less likely, not more likely to recognise a relative clause than a language learner. | |
| Dec 8 at 16:03 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | (2) The that/which problem is addressed at When to use 'that' and when to use 'which' especially in relative clauses. The comma usage is discussed at Does removing the comma before 'which' etc in a non-restrictive clause change the meaning? | |
| Dec 8 at 15:53 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | One question at a time, please, Quốc Anh Phạm. (1A) is more suited to ELL; (1B) has been covered before, for instance at Which-clause functioning adverbially: 'My son chews with his mouth open, which aggravates me.'. The participial clause in (3) is covered at What are the grammatical concepts of this? 'The car ... requires lots of gasoline, making it expensive to operate.' | |
| Dec 8 at 11:04 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
improved formatting, grammar, fixed typos,
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| Dec 8 at 11:02 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 8 at 5:23 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | That this restricts it to one chair only is unrelated to the following nonrestrictive clause. | |
| Dec 8 at 5:12 | answer | added | LPH | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 8 at 2:54 | history | asked | Quốc Anh Phạm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |