In Football^x, Relative pronouns^x, Auxiliaries^x

CB, Thank you for your input. At least I know I am not the only one with the PASSIVE approach toward this typeof sentences. <<<Football is a popular sport as an adjective, although it is a past participle. However, some may argue this is a passive voice sentence because my...

played in almost all As ia n and European countries . The sentence consists of a main clause and a relative clause , which has been reduced by omitting the relative pronoun and the passive auxiliary (is). I call such structures clause equivalents, but terminology is unimportant here. The...