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What can be relativised?

Subject, Object, Complement, Adverb စတာေတြဟာ Relativised Elements မ်ား ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ၾကပါတယ္။

သို႔ေသာ္ Direct Object & Indirect Object ဟူ၍ Object ႏွစ္ခုပါတဲ့ Ditransitive Verb မ်ားနဲ႔ ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ သတိထားစရာေတြ ရိွပါတယ္။

1. He showed a student the exam paper.
   [the exam paper — Direct Object (Patient) ]
   [a student — Indirect Object (Recipient) ]

▶Indirect Object ကို Relativise မလုပ္ႏိုင္ပါ။
1(a). T̶h̶e̶ s̶t̶u̶d̶e̶n̶t̶ w̶h̶o̶m̶ h̶e̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶w̶e̶d̶ t̶h̶e̶ e̶x̶a̶m̶ p̶a̶p̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶e̶d̶ t̶h̶e̶ p̶o̶l̶i̶c̶e̶.
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1. We gave a girl the candy.

2(a). We gave the candy to a girl.
[the candy — Direct Object (patient) ]
[to a girl — Prepositional Phrase (Recipient),
(a girl — Prepositional Complement ) ]

Indirect Object ကို တန္းၿပီး Relativise မလုပ္ႏိုင္ပါ။
Indirect Object ကို Prepositional Complement အသြင္နဲ႔သာ Relativise လုပ္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။

2(b). T̲h̲e̲ g̲i̲r̲l̲ w̲h̲o̲ w̲e̲ g̲a̲v̲e̲ t̲h̲e̲ ̲c̲a̲n̲d̲y̲ t̲o̲̲ is Fred's sister. ✅

2(c). T̶h̶e̶ g̶i̶r̶l̶ w̶h̶o̶ w̶e̶ g̶a̶v̶e̶ t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶d̶y̶ (_) i̶s̶ F̶r̶e̶d̶'̶s̶ s̶i̶s̶t̶e̶r̶.
( to မပါဘဲ Indirect Object ကို တန္းၿပီး Relativise လုပ္၍ မရပါ။)

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Give, Buy , Send, Hand တို႔ကဲ့သို႔ Ditransitive Verbs မ်ားနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး သတိျပဳသင့္သည့္ Order

Object ဟာ Full Noun Phrase ျဖစ္ေနၿပီး
Recipient of Object ဟာ Unstressed Pronoun ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့အခါ

1. I gave it to Frank. ✅
   3(a). I̶ g̶a̶v̶e̶ F̶r̶a̶n̶k̶ i̶t̶.

2. They handed them to the teacher. ✅
   4(a). T̶h̶e̶y̶ h̶a̶n̶d̶e̶d̶ t̶h̶e̶ t̶e̶a̶c̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶.̶

Ref.:
CamGEL 12§3.3
TGE p.423
CGE 278d

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