Reduced relative clauses - English Grammar
www.englishgrammar.org › reduced-relative-clausesAug 24, 2013 · How to reduce a relative clause? A participle can often be used instead of a relative pronoun and full verb. Read the sentence given below. The girl who sits next to Peter is my neighbor’s daughter. Now when we shorten the relative clause ‘who sits next to Peter’, we get: The girl sitting next to Peter is my neighbor’s daughter. Another example is given below. Who is the girl who is sitting next to your brother? Now when we reduce the relative clause, we get:
Reduced Relative Clauses - Past and Present Participles
www.grammarwiz.com › reduced-relative-clausesReduced relative clauses can be used to make your writing more concise, so it is common to use them within formal or academic writing, though they can appear in any style of writing. As the grammatically correct reduction of relative clauses is quite a difficult skill, it is something the examiner in the IELTS test will look out for when awarding a band 7 and above for grammatical range and accuracy.