Clause structure
I came across a structure, which I have tried to dissect it to know its function and grammatical name.
However, at a glance I said, the highlighted group of words was a clause( Noun clause) which functions as Subject. Below is the sentence........
- The team the school presented was a strong one.
Yet, I am not sure. Could someone help me to clear the discombobulation ?
The subject of your sentence is the team the school presented, the verb is was, and the subject complement is a strong one.
The school presented is a restrictive relative clause that gives more information about the team. In this case the word that ordinarily introduces a relative clause has been omitted:
The team (that) the school presented was a strong one.
The UNC Writing Center website suggests that the omission can happen here because "that" serves as an object pronoun in the relative clause. This is quite common in speech:
Object pronouns can be deleted.
I like the bike that my father gave me.
I like the bike my father gave me.