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Under the heading: Integrated clauses that are not restrictive, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_relative_clauses gives the following examples:
a) The father who had planned my life to the point of my unsought arrival in Brighton took it for granted that in the last three weeks of his legal guardianship I would still act as he directed.
b) He sounded like the clergyman [that] he was.
My questions:
1) How do we know whether a relative clause is "integrated" or not? (It seems to be hard to identify these "integrated" clauses just by looking at them, because, they are, in fact, non restrictive clauses that only appears to be restrictive.)
2) Do we commonly use "integrated clauses" in English?
a) The father who had planned my life to the point of my unsought arrival in Brighton took it for granted that in the last three weeks of his legal guardianship I would still act as he directed.
b) He sounded like the clergyman [that] he was.
My questions:
1) How do we know whether a relative clause is "integrated" or not? (It seems to be hard to identify these "integrated" clauses just by looking at them, because, they are, in fact, non restrictive clauses that only appears to be restrictive.)
2) Do we commonly use "integrated clauses" in English?