Hi,
Could anyone tell me whether or not what is written in brackets is a reduced relative clause:
1-In general, “to devote” refers to the feeling or emotion[which is] involved in spending time on something, and “to dedicate” reflects a conscious choice to set something aside or give something a special purpose.
Does it matter?
These words can be left out or included, the meaning is the same. We used to call them ‘understood’ when I was in school. I would regard the clause as an adjectival clause modifying ‘feeling or emotion’.
What does matter is that you can understand and use English, not that you can analyse everything. Do you have to do this analysis for some English class somewhere?
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What’s a reduced relative clause?
It doesn’t matter much. But when I translate to my language with these ellipsis, it doesn’t make any sense.
A reduced relative clause is a participle is often used instead of a relative pronoun and full verb.
Who’s the girl dancing with your brother? This is a reduced relative clause.
Who’s the girl who/that is dancing with your bother? This is adjectival clause.
So, I think that the last sentence would be a reduced relative clause.
You mean adjectival clause? Or are all reduced relative clauses subsets of adjectival clauses (or vice versa)?
I think that an adjectival relative clause is called with a reduced relative clause when a participle[PP/V+ing/ adjective] is often used instead of a relative pronoun and full verb. In other words there is ellipsis
Acooperator, I honestly do not understand how you can learn English with all of these grammatical terms. I would be completely confused and lose interest right away if I had to learn them. To me these terms are a distraction from language learning. But to each his own , I guess.
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yes, verb, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, case…that is about it. Once we get into the names of clauses, or types of sentences or most of the rest of the terminology artificially created by grammar specialists, I am gone.
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“I think that an adjectival relative clause is called with a reduced relative clause when a participle[PP/V+ing/ adjective] is often used instead of a relative pronoun and full verb. In other words there is ellipsis”
Ah, sorry. I see now…