I use sentences like this in grammar
classes to help distinguish between relatives and content clauses, so they
understand the notion “gap”. Needless to say, at first such a
sentence gives students absolute fits.
Herb
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Here’s a sentence that is ambiguous
between a relative and a complement clause:
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