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Shakespearean relative clause: "I have a brother is condemned to die"
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In the half a millennium since Shakespeare was writing, English has evolved new and different rules of grammar. In early modern English, relative pronouns were omissible when they represented ...
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Shakespearean relative clause: "I have a brother is condemned to die"
One factor I think is relevant is that this is a line of verse—"I háve a bróther ís condémned to díe" is in iambic pentameter, like the next line ("I dó beséech you, lét it bé his fáult") (Measure for ...
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Skipping a relative pronoun
You are in error. If you had only skipped the relative pronoun,
you would have produced the ungrammatical clause
*I slowly turn toward the elderly gentleman is standing at my side
In fact, in ...
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"named" vs "that is named"
There is a syntactic rule, called Whiz-Deletion, which is available in certain relative clauses.
Specifically, it can apply to clauses with the following properties:
the relative pronoun (which, who, ...
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Noun + Gerund Structure Differences
The main difficulty results directly from your terminology, which as far as I can tell, is an unusual* one that is leading to paradoxes and misunderstanding. You appear to be using the term “gerund” ...
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Omission of "is" in "She thought the study of Latin a waste of time."
The word is has not been omitted from the sample sentence. This is an error in analysis.
You’re asking why something that didn’t happen did happen. Your question cannot be directly answered because ...
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Is it Gerund or adjective?
Yes, you could.
"Coming" is a participle, in the small clause obtained by Whiz deletion
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Adjective use after nouns: with and without that-clause
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The question presents three adjectives that, it is claimed, cannot directly follow a noun, but require to be preceded by “that is”. Examples are provided from a variety of linguistically ...
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What is the difference between a Whiz deletion and using the present participle as an adjective?
I think your difficulty lies with the fact that singing sensation is a commonly used compound term, and therefore turning the phrase around has a different meaning. I couldn't find an online ...
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Skipping a relative pronoun
[1] My eyes widen, and I slowly turn toward the elderly gentleman [standing
at my side].
[2] My eyes widen, and I slowly turn toward the elderly gentleman [who
stands at my side].
The simple answer ...
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No relative pronoun
As a commenter under the question points out, you also omitted the verb in the relative clause in each case. This results in grammatical sentences but, out of context, may not be interpreted as ...
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Use "hang" or "hung", when to use passive voice of "hang"?
I believe you're confusing the semantic classifier 'action verb' with the syntactic descriptors 'active' / 'passive' 'mood'.
To illustrate the moods:
I cooked the lamb. [active mood]
The lamb was ...
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Can I reduce the relative clause after 'since' to a phrase?
The word that refers to this type of reduction is ellipsis.
Ellipsis is fine here, but the punctuation is important.
If you say, "the first games held in 1951", it means that there were several ...
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What is the grammatical topic of this shortening technique?
Well, there's a lot happening here.
Here is a shorter version of the sentence in question:
This is a phenomenon that some people might find troubling.
The bold part is a relative clause. We can ...
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Why Shakespeare used "come" in the line "A Daniel come to judgement?"
A Daniel come to judgment!
Note first that this is not a sentence, a finite clause, but an exclamatory noun phrase, just like the immediately following Yea, a Daniel!. Come to judgment isn't a ...
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The usage of "WHO" as a conjunction
As BillJ said, indifferent to the ways of mercantilism and minimum-wage expectations is an adjective phrase functioning as a post-head modifier. The way it is written, it is somewhat ambiguous whether ...
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Use of which in a sentence
Both are correct.
In 1, “SRH” and “a recombination model” are in apposition, suggesting an equivalence between them. The equivalence need only be partial. Thus, all that we know about SRH is that it ...
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Use of which in a sentence
The two variants are both grammatical.
(1) has 'a recombination model' (correctly offset, as it is a non-defining parenthetical, by commas) as an explicative / descriptive appositive.
(2) uses a non-...
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How can an adjective follow and modify an adverb in “somewhere new”? Is this ellipsis?
After further research, I think that somewhere is actually an indefinite pronoun in this sentence, although it only appears as an adverb in the Cambridge Dictionary.
Both of my examples are therefore ...
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Why Shakespeare used "come" in the line "A Daniel come to judgement?"
As a British English speaker I would consider "come to", that is " has arrived at this place" to be an archaic form and not common usage, except perhaps in legal speak - renowned for its resistance to ...
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Omission of "is" in "She thought the study of Latin a waste of time."
She thought X a waste of time.
There are many examples of this phrase in Google Books. Here is but one:
Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership
He thought it a waste of time to invade ...
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Is there any difference between “ i was woken up by a ringing bell” and “ i was woken up by a bell ringing”?
There is no commonly understood difference in the practical meaning of the two sentences.
But since you're asking specifically about grammar, there is a possible difference in their theoretical ...
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When can the relative pronouns "who", "which", "that" etc. be safely omitted?
The guy who is beside me is a jerk.
The guy beside me is a jerk.
The rule we use here is a reduced relative clause (hereafter, RRC).* RRC allows you to delete the relative pronoun (and sometimes ...
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Is it correct to use 'present' after a noun or pronoun?
Well, you could technically say either. But I doubt that you're trying to say that there are teachers in the hall showing a PowerPoint presentation.
In this instance, "present" is an adjective, not a ...
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