displaced relative clause

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 1 22:38:25 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Michael Newman
<michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu> wrote:
> the relative right after the modified N.

Okay. But, for me, there's not even a stylistic difference between the
two possibilities. It's like trying to decide which pronunciation of
the initial vowel of _economic_ is "correct" in formal speech.

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