Re: Verb-classifiers and preverbs.

In a message dated 5/1/2008 20:47:21 PM Central Daylight Time,
un.doing@GMAIL.COM writes:


> It is possible to shunt the relative clause to the end in English, as
> David did (now there's the start of a nursery rhyme).
>
> "The students were punished who were late by five minutes or more."
>
> It is normally (for the sake of easy parsing) used only when the
>

Granted, but there's not usually an intervening noun that the relative clause
can be applied to.

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