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Conlangery #72: Relative Clauses

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How to Use a Relative Pronoun in English

In English, we can all sometimes use nothing to indicate a relative clause. We have an example here where you can't use either of the other strategies. The only other way I can think of is of whom the teeth are huge,. But that's using just whom, uh, instead of who's like a and it brings up a couple things really. So when I say like the man I saw yesterday, right, amending any, any, anything to confuse a point? In linguistics papers, you may see someone, um, put that kind of example down and, and write it out as theMan I saw blank yesterday.

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