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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. …
John Lawler's user avatar
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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. …
John Lawler's user avatar
3 votes

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. …
John Lawler's user avatar
13 votes
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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. …
John Lawler's user avatar
5 votes

"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 …
John Lawler's user avatar
2 votes

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
John Lawler's user avatar
2 votes

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. …
John Lawler's user avatar
3 votes

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]. …
John Lawler's user avatar
1 vote

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. …
John Lawler's user avatar
2 votes
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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. …
John Lawler's user avatar
5 votes

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. …
John Lawler's user avatar
5 votes
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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 …
John Lawler's user avatar
2 votes

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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5 votes

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
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