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Old 11-Oct-2006, 11:38
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I'm talking to the person that have a lot of money.

Can I reduce the sentence to "I'm talking to the person having a lot of money"

by the way,can we reduce relative clause if the original clause is not in participle form (like the sentence above)

thanks in advance!

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I'm talking to the person with a lot of money.
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