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relative adverb clauses which modify nouns
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It was a pleasure to read a post that included the phenomenon of elided relative adverbs

in adverbial relative clauses modifying nouns.

 
Relative adverbs may undergo "that"replacement and Ø replacement, or elision, much like relative pronouns.

 
the time when it happened          the place where we met          the reason why I did it

the time that it happened            the place that we met              the reason that I did it

the time Ø it happened                the place Ø we met                 the reason Ø I did it

 
My examples are made up, but--if I took the time--I could find examples of all of the above in real corpi.

 
Melvin Hoffman
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