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Relative clauses (defining or non-defining)
My fried insists that there is only one way to do this based on the
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Actually, there are many ways to do this:
My brother who/that is a great doctor works in a famous hospital
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Relative clauses (defining or non-defining)
Both structures work in this case because the "who works in" clause is "non-defining." And your structure has the advantage of being more straightforward.
What your friend is ...
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Is "of that" a relative phrase？
No: "that" is a determiner functioning as a fused determiner-head in NP structure.
Relative phrases are only of the wh type.
Note in any case that relative "that" is a subordinator,...
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Is "of that" a relative phrase？
Success adores the prosperous attitude, of that you can be sure.
is post-positioning. "of that" is accurate as it is anaphoric or refers back to the main idea.
You can be sure of success ...
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Is "of that" a relative phrase？
It isn't a relative clause; it doesn't supply more information about either noun. It's just an assertion that the first clause is true.
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". . . as had the estate" - a relative clause?
“Him as had the estate” in this dialect can be paraphrased as “the one [brother] who had the estate.”
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". . . as had the estate" - a relative clause?
Mr Carthew had become a landed proprietor because his brother 'as had the estate' (who was the heir to the family estate) had died.
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". . . as had the estate" - a relative clause?
It seems his brother had took and died, him as had the estate.
In examples like this and in very informal style (perhaps in regional dialects), "as" can be used without any trace of its ...
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