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REDUCED RELATIVE CLAUSES •they are especially common in academic English •whenthe pronoun: "who", "which" or "that" is the subject of a defining relative clause, the clause can be reduced in this way •to form one you change the verb from its original tense to an
Reduced relative clauses are participle clauses which follow a noun. They are like relative clauses, but with the relative pronoun and auxiliary verb (if there is one) omitted. Present participles and past participles can both be used in reduced relative clauses. Example 1: The man who works in the café is my friend’s cousin.
If the relative clause is in the passive voice and in a simple tense, then it can be reduced by deleting the relative pronoun and the verb 'to be', leaving you with the past participle. If it is a negative, then you place ' not ' at the beginning of the participle phrase.
Relative Clause Reduction Rules. 1. In defining clauses, we can omit the relative pronoun in the position of object. The boy who / whom / that you don’t like much wants to talk to you. The boy you don’t like much wants to talk to you. Note: In non-defining sentences you neither omit the relative pronoun nor use "that".
Reducing Relative Clauses Some types of relative clauses can be “reduced”— the relative pronoun and maybe other words can be removed. You might reduce the clause to make your writing more concise or to add sentence variety. We’ll use the examples above to demonstrate how to reduce both restrictive and non-restrictive clauses.
24 Αυγ 2013 · How to reduce a relative clause? A participle can often be used instead of a relative pronoun and full verb. Read the sentence given below. The girl who sits next to Peter is my neighbor’s daughter. Now when we shorten the relative clause ‘who sits next to Peter’, we get: The girl sitting next to Peter is my neighbor’s daughter. Another ...
2 Οκτ 2017 · This passage contains 8 reduced relative clauses. Underline them and identify how they were formed (see the example in the first sentence). In addition to reduced clauses, there are also 4 full relative clauses. Identify these full clauses and indicate how they can be reduced.
