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I have seen a few restrictive and non-restrictive clauses with no ‘that’ and ‘which’ respectively. For example:
To me, the sentences should be structured as follows:
Kindly let me know which amongst the above sentences are acceptable, grammatically.
Thank you.
Regards
- It’s a car I bought last year.
- It’s a car that I bought last year.
As commented, both examples on the pen are not sentences as their main verbs are missing.
We address your query on the omission of relative pronouns.
In informal styles, we could omit object relative pronouns in defining relative clauses.
Example 3 is fine. Example 1 has a defining relative clause, and hence its object relative pronoun could be omitted, for informal style.
In informal styles, we often leave out the relative pronoun. We only do this in defining relative clauses, and when the relative pronoun is the object of the verb. We don’t leave out the relative pronoun when it is the subject of the verb nor in non-defining relative clauses.
