Reduced Relative Clause

Question 1

Relative clauses with which verb can be reduced?

Answer 1

-with be

Question 2

Which three types of reduced relative clauses do exist?

Answer 2

-participle phrases, prepositional phrases, and appositives

Question 3

How do you reduce a subject relative clause?

+ Example: The expert who is giving tomorrow’s talk on Millennials is very known.

Answer 3

• by omitting the relative pronoun (that, which, who) and be
• The expert giving tomorrow’s talk on Millennials is very known

Question 4

How should Students shorten be+ a single adjective?

+Example: I know a lot of people who are self-confident.

Answer 4

• should not, instead move the adjective before the modified noun
• I know a lot of self-confident people.

Question 5

What should you not reduce?

Answer 5

• subject relative clause with be+a single adjective (instead move the adjective before the modified noun)
• object relative clause

Question 6

What are participle phrases?

->Students who are concerned with the environment

Answer 6

• a reduced form of relative clauses with a verb that includes a form of be
• Students concerned with the environment

Question 7

When can you also omit the relative pronoun and be?

Answer 7

• when they are followed by a prepositional phrases in identifying relative clauses (The computers in our classroom are fast)
• when they are followed by a noun phrase in nonidentifying relative clause ( called appositive) (Jan Smith, an expert on fish, …)

Question 8

What can you do with appositive phrases?

Answer 8

-change the position with modified noun and the appositive

Question 9

What should you not forget when it comes to appositives?

Answer 9

• begin and end with commas (/often in parentheses in academic writing )
• noun phrase in nonidentifying sentences