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Using Conjunction Reduction in Natural Language Examples
There are various kinds of syntax tests you can do that let you know in a phrase like me thinks. That me is actually truly the subject. In languages like Icelandic, that we're going to talk about in a bit that has lots and lots of kinds of data subjects. Conjunction reduction works in such a way that the data subject can be dropped and we know that it's really the subject. Because in the next clause, it will be the same as what was in the data in the previous one.