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noun Major Saranoff. The relative clause is nonrestrictive that use commas because it is necessary to identify the noun it modifies.
3.1.4 Relative Pronoun as Object of Preposition
Here are several examples of relative pronouns as object of Preposition that I found :
i Reckoning up what he can guess about Raina: her age, her social
position, her character, and the extent to which she is frightened, he continues, more politely but still most determinedly.
ii That is a photograph of the gentleman-the patriot and hero-to whom I am betrothed.
iii the suggestion of a strange and terrible history that has left nothing but undying remorse, by which Childe Harold fascinated the
grandmothers of his English contemporaries. The underlined clauses in those three sentences above are relative clauses
which are introduced by prepositions with relative pronoun. The relative pronoun in those clause functions characteristically as object of preposition. In the formal
pattern, the preposition comes at the beginning of the relative clauses, as in clause i, ii, iii above. However, in the formal pattern, the prepositions come after
subject and verb of the relative clauses.
The analysis of clause i:
Alfian Fajri. An analysis of relative clause in george bernard shaw’s play “arms and the man”. 2007 USU e-Repository©2009
The construction of the sentences above as follows: Sentence = an independent clause + relative clause
Relative clause = preposition + whom, which + subject + verb + complement Let me notice the construction above in the sentence i in the chart below:
Reckoning up what he can guess about Raina: her age, her social position, her character, and the extent to which she is frightened, he continues, more politely
but still most determinedly. Reckoning up what he can guess about
Raina: her age, her social position, her character, and the extent
= an independent clause
to which she is frightened = a relative clause
which is the object of preposition
Clause i use the relative pronoun which. The relative pronoun which in clause i functions as the object of preposition to. Note that preposition to comes
at the beginning of the relative clauses. The relative clause is restrictive that do not use commas because it simply gives additional information and is not
necessary to identify the noun it modifies.
The analysis of clause ii:
The construction of the sentences above as follows: Sentence = an independent clause + relative clause
Relative clause = preposition + whom, which + subject + verb + complement Let me notice the construction above in the sentence ii in the chart below:
Alfian Fajri. An analysis of relative clause in george bernard shaw’s play “arms and the man”. 2007 USU e-Repository©2009
That is a photograph of the gentleman-the patriot and hero-to whom I am betrothed.
That is a photograph of the gentleman- the patriot and hero-
= an independent clause
to whom I am betrothed. = a relative clause
whom is the object of preposition
Clause ii use the relative pronoun whom. The relative pronoun whom in clause ii functions as the object of preposition to. Note that preposition to comes
at the beginning of the relative clauses. The relative clause is restrictive that do not use commas because it simply gives additional information and is not
necessary to identify the noun it modifies.
The analysis of clause iii:
The construction of the sentences above as follows: Sentence = an independent clause + relative clause
Relative clause = preposition + whom, which + subject + verb + complement Let me notice the construction above in the sentence iii in the chart below:
the suggestion of a strange and terrible history that has left nothing but undying remorse, by which Childe Harold fascinated the grandmothers of his English
contemporaries. the suggestion of a strange and terrible
history that has left nothing but undying = an independent clause
Alfian Fajri. An analysis of relative clause in george bernard shaw’s play “arms and the man”. 2007 USU e-Repository©2009
remorse, by which Childe Harold fascinated the
grandmothers of his English contemporaries.
= a relative clause
which is the object of preposition Clause iii use the relative pronoun which. The relative pronoun which in
clause iii functions as the object of preposition by. Note that preposition by comes at the beginning of the relative clauses. The relative clause is nonrestrictive
that use commas because it is necessary to identify the noun it modifies.
3.1.5 Relative Pronoun in Phrases of Quantity and Quality
