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by moving them into relative clauses. For example, "John's beautiful wife" can be rewritten as "John's wife, who is beautiful", to avoid the suggestion of disambiguation between John's various wives. A sentence unmarked for restrictiveness, like "The red car is fancier than the blue one," can—if
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are referring to. ("The car is fancier than the one" would make little sense.) By contrast, in "John's beautiful mother",
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We saw two puppies this morning: one that was born yesterday and one that was born last week. The one
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English does not generally mark modifiers for restrictiveness, with the exception of
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necessary—be rephrased to make it explicitly restrictive or non-restrictive:
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English speakers do not generally find such locutions necessary, however.
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On the intonation question, see Beverly Colins and Inger M. Mees (2003),
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as a restrictive pronoun is often considered to be incorrect. See
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The car, which is red, is fancier than the other, which is blue.
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through the lack of commas, restrictive modifiers are called
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The car that's red is fancier than the one that's blue.
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Although English does not consistently mark ordinary
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We saw a puppy and a kitty this morning. The puppy,
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