Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 86', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | . q The Grammar Book Sam knows the place where we are meeting. NT I N Sain AUX T I -pres output of base Sam -pres know the place we -pres be meet -ing at the place copy s t Sam -pres 3 sg know the place we -pres 1 pl be meet -ing at the place rcl. pro. substitution Sam -pres 3 sg know the place we -pres 1 pl be meet -ing at which rd. pro. fronting Sam -pres 3 sg know the place at which we -pres 1 pl be meet -ing At this point we could simply complete the process by applying the morphological rules and produce Sam knows the place at which we are meeting. However another possibility also exists. We could produce a less formal variant of this sentence by applying the relative adverb substitution rule which substitutes the relative adverb where for the locative prepositional phrase at which. rel. adverb substitution Sam -pres 3 sg know the place where we -pres 1 pl be meet -ing morphological rules Sam knows the place where we are meeting. The function of the relative adverb substitution rule therefore is to substitute the semantically related relative adverb for the corresponding preposition and relative pronoun combination as follows prep which place where prep which time when prep which reason why There is also one other combination that we will examine shortly prep which manner way how Chapter 29 More on Relative Clauses 599 This rule allows us to show how the other two clauses in our original sentence are produced. They are less formal variants of clauses in which the preposition and the relative pronoun are retained Sam knows the time at which we are meeting - Sam knows the time when we re meeting. Sam does not know the reason for which we are meeting - Sam doesn t know why we re meeting. Head Noun Deletion You may have noticed that although it is perfectly grammatical to say the place where in Sam knows the place where we are meeting it does seem redundant. A less redundant and less formal variant of such a statement is Sam knows where we are meeting. Here we .
