THE DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSE

THE DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSE – Read the following:
A doctor is a person who cures patients.
The teacher is a person who eclucates boys and girls or rnen and women.
A carpenter is a person who makes furniture.

परिभाषित रिलेवेटिव क्लाउज – निम्नलिखित पढ़ें:
एक डॉक्टर एक व्यक्ति है जो रोगियों को ठीक करता है
शिक्षक एक ऐसा व्यक्ति है जो लड़कों और लड़कियों या रावण और महिलाओं को इकट्ठा करता है
एक बढ़ई एक ऐसा व्यक्ति है जो फर्नीचर बनाती है

If the italicized parts of these sentences are omitted, what we learn about a doctor, a teacher and a carpenter is that each of them is a person. Such a definition, though grammatically correct, will be found unsatisfactory by all. Why? Because to say that a doctor is a person or also that a teacher is one too tells us nothing about what kind of person etc.

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