English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
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- Activity B10.1
NON-STANDARD ENGLISH
In informal spoken English contact relative clauses occur with the subject missing: ‘There was a great cheer went up.’ (David Cameron, describing the reaction to his announcement of the royal wedding to his cabinet colleagues) This is typical with existential there (see A8 and A11); . . . which went up would be normal. whose ❏ is a possessive relative determiner; in other words it is used to link two nouns: This is the student whose essay I was telling you about. It shows a relationship between the nouns similar to the genitive ( ❏ the student’s essay – see A2) and the possessive determiners (her essay). It is not only used with human reference: . . . an idea whose time has come. Identify which of the relative clauses below could have the pronoun deleted (i.e. become a contact clause). 1. Floods are something which we haven’t planned for. 2. Floods are something for which we haven’t planned. 3. She is a woman who everybody respects greatly. 4. She is a woman who is greatly respected by everybody. ✪ Activity B10.1 128 D E V E L O P M E N T Relative clauses can also be introduced by when, where and why. The antecedents (see below) are basic abstract nouns such as place, reason and time: They’ve put him in a place where he can do no harm. The reason why she left is still unknown. I can still remember a time when people left their doors unlocked. These can be related to sentences with a preposition and which: They’ve put him in a place in which he can do no harm. As we have seen, wh- words are used in a number of ways: to introduce interrogatives, exclamatives (see B9), nominal clauses and relative clauses. In the first two cases they normally occur at the start of a clause (or at least as part of the first noun phrase in a clause); in the last two cases they typically occur in the middle of a sentence since they are linking two clauses. Distinguish the following sentences according to the above constructions. 1. I’ve discovered where the money is. 2. He used to work for a bank which went bankrupt. 3. What a nice day it is. 4. Whose woods these are, I think I know. 5. He is a thinker whose time is yet to come. 6. I’ve found a hotel where we can stay. Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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