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Reduction Transformations

Found 7 items tagged with #Reduction Transformations.

Reduction transformation 6: restoring the hidden to and the hidden that that English leaves out.

Reduction transformation 5: participles at the edge of a sentence, and how to avoid the dangling trap.

Reduction transformation 4: the shrunken clause left behind after if, when, and although.

Reduction transformation 3: the hidden if inside inverted conditionals like Had I known.

Reduction transformation 2: the reduced relative clause, the master key to reading dense, formal English.

Reduction transformation 1: spotting the missing that that hides between two nouns.

The master secret of dense English: how the language hides words, and the method for restoring them.