3. 주어가 길어질때 : 관계사가 생략된 관계사절

Point : 주격 관계사(주격관계대명사+be) 외에 타동사나 전치사의 목적격 관계사는 생략이 가능하며 관계사절의 동사를 전체문장의 본동사로 헛갈리지 않게 주의할 필요가 있다.

명사1[(wh-) 주어 동사 ~]동사1 ~ : 명사 + (주어+동사)이면 관계사가 생략된 관계사절이다. 동사1의 형태와 수는 명사1에 의해서 결정된다.

▶ Practice

․ The way we describe people [depends / depend] on culture

․ One of the major problems we face both as individuals and as a society [is / are] simplistic thinking.

․ At the beginning of the ice age, the areas human beings lived [were / was] milder and more pleasant to live, since they were generally located near the equator.

․ Lincoln was a literary artist, trained both by others and by himself. The textbooks he used as a boy [were / was] full of concise and coherent expressions like his speech.