Postmodifiers and Reduced Relative Clauses

Reduce clauses for brevity.

Examples

• the man standing there

Key rules

• Remove who/which + be: the man (who is) standing there
• Use -ing for active, -ed for passive
• To-infinitive after first, last, only
• Not for non-defining clauses with commas

Common mistakes

• The book writing by him → The book written by him
• The only person know → The only person to know