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How do I identify and punctuate appositives?
These sentences (with the addition of the syntactic rule of Whiz-Deletion) mean the same as two of your example sentences; the others are less likely to occur:
A bold innovator, (who was named/called) … Indeed, relative clauses that undergo Whiz-Deletion are the likely source of most appositives. …
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Skipping a relative pronoun
That is the effect of the syntactic rule mentioned above in comments, called Whiz-Deletion in the professional literature. …
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Why can we use present participles but not past participles in some reduced relative clauses?
That's the form that the well-known English syntactic rule of Whiz-Deletion requires.
And it really doesn't have anything to do with which kind of participle is used. … There are a lot of grammatical rules like Whiz-Deletion, and they produce ungrammatical sentences when they're not applied correctly. …
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Differences between Verb + to be + adjective and Verb + adjective
There is no specific rule saying when to perform this deletion; it's a matter of individual choice, like many other rules in English. … This rule (or app) is To-be-Deletion; a similar one for a different situation is Whiz-Deletion. …
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"named" vs "that is named"
There is a syntactic rule, called Whiz-Deletion, which is available in certain relative clauses. … The funny name comes from the fact that the relative pronoun is usually a wh-word, and the auxiliary is usually is, so whiz deletion is just Wh-is deletion. …
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Is this an example of ellipsis? '... , only a glimmer of the moon.'
Under other circumstances, Whiz- Deletion omits a Wh- word (or that) subject, and its following be auxiliary from a relative clause, converting, for instance,
the man who was standing there to the man … Or there is rule-based deletion of individual function words like to-deletion that is obligatory with modal auxiliaries and sense verbs
*They may/should/can/must to arrive at 5, but They may/should/can …
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She ended up (being??) a rich woman
Auxiliary forms of be can be deleted by many rules, since they're predictable, so Whiz-deletion and to be-deletion are common in relative clauses and infinitive complements. … This also happens to being auxiliaries with end up:
the man who was standing on the corner ==> the man standing on the corner
(Whiz-deletion)
He's considered to be lazy ==> He's considered lazy
(to be-deletion …
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Is "something red" an example of ellipsis or adjectival positioning
It's both ellipsis (via Whiz-Deletion), and adjective positioning.
Something is a compound of the indefinite quantifier some and the generic neuter noun thing. …
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I heard <Mona singing that song> <the song sung by Mona>. [parse]
on the other hand, has been transformed by Whiz-Deletion, stripping off the markers from the relative clause in
(3) I heard the song [that was sung by Mona]. …
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The rationale behind "She is coming back next Wednesday" without "on"
Complementizer that, infinitive to, wh+be in Whiz-deletion, Conversational deletion, and so on. These are all meaningless words that guide the listener to the structures. …
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Dangling modifier or gerund
What's happened is that until well blended comes from until (they are) well blended by Whiz-Deletion. So your intuition that there should be some form of be is right; but not the -ing form. …
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Is "I already have two stamps drawn" grammatically correct?
This is reduced by Whiz-deletion to two stamps drawn, like
I already have seven chapters finished.
I already have three bags full. …
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The object of "I don't like people telling me what to do"?
It could either mean
[those] people [who are] telling me what to do,
a complex noun phrase with a relative clause reduced by Whiz-Deletion, logically
(∀x: PEOPLE(x)) TELL (x, I, DO (I, What))
or …
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Indirect complement or postmodifier in a noun phrase
Of course, such relative clauses are often trimmed down to prepositional phrases by Whiz Deletion:
He is the tallest boy in the class. …
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Can a preposition have the form of superlative?
The repeated NP the chair is deleted in context, leaving only nearest to them, which could be perfectly ordinary in a relative clause
a voice spoke from the chair which was nearest to them
And then Whiz-deletion …