Hi my great teachers!!
Would you please tell me the original sentence of the one bellow.
Everything to organize the picnic has already been done.
For example, the sentence like: The letter mailed today hasn’t arrived yet. This sentence originate from the one : The letter [color=red]which is mailed today hasn’t arrived yet,
right?
What about [color=red]to organize above where does from?
Thankssssssss!
Soklong
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Keep in mind that there is no ‘original sentence’. Potential words of an utterance can be elided through the mutual understanding of listener and speaker. Perhaps:
Everything [needed/required] to organize the picnic…
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Hi soklong,
Everything to organize the picnic …
could simply be: Everything you want to organize …
Alan
Thank teachers!
But I still woder if it is said to be from the sentence like you said:
Why we omit needed/required from this sentence. What we call this style?
Like: The letter which is mailed today hasn’t arrived yet to the letter mailed today… we call reduce adjective clause.
Thank beforehand
Soklong
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This also is a reduced adjective clause. I had already reduced it a bit:
Everything [(that is) needed/required] to organize the picnic.…
The extent of elision depends on how much the reader/listener can be expected to understand, I suppose.
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