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Why are these correct?

  1. The work I am doing is easy.

  2. The house he lives at.

  3. The book I am writing is about different realms.

  4. The man I was helping thanked me.

  5. The ant I was blocking the road of.

  6. The school I go to.

Shouldn't "I am doing", "lives at", "writing", "was helping", "blocking", and "go" be at the front? Could you please explain the grammar here? Thank you.

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  • You should read about the basics of reduced relative clauses: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_relative_clause. If this is too advanced, check your grammar book.
    – legatrix
    Dec 10, 2020 at 10:09
  • 2 and 6 are sentence fragments and therefore, it's pointless to comment on their correctness or otherwise.
    – user405662
    Dec 10, 2020 at 11:33

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Simply, the relative pronoun "that" has been omitted.

The work that I am doing is easy.

The house that he lives at

The book that I am writing is about different realms.

The man that/who I was helping thanked me.

The ant that I was blocking the road of

The school that I go to

Such clauses are, as @legatrix comments, called reduced relative clauses, wherein the complementiser or relative pronoun is implicit.

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