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What is the meaning of "out of which" in a sentence?
Recemtly I read a linguistic textbook and there is a sentence that I can't understand.
It says "The syntactic constituents of a phrasal expression are the smaller expressions out of which the phrase was contructed."
My question is what does "out of which" exactly mean in this sentence.
2018年3月12日 08:12
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The sentence is saying that syntactic constituents are smaller expressions that make up a phrasal expression.
In English, you aren't suppose to end a sentence with a preposition. So the author moved the words "out of" from the end of the sentence ("...smaller expressions which the phrase was constructed out of") and put it before "which."
2018年3月12日
hi. i think, out of which is similar with "from where"
im sorry if thats wrong
2018年3月12日
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