Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary
The user base for Monzo's app,...
"The user base for Monzo's app, which analyses and categorises spending habits, sends budgeting nudges and allows users to freeze and unfreeze cards at the click of a button, soared by 300 percent to 450,000 in nine months last year." (Reuters.)
Is "which analyses and categorises spending habits, sends budgeting nudges and allows users to freeze and unfreeze cards at the click of a button" a non-defining relative clause in the sentence above?
--------------------It seems to me that it is grammatically a non-defining form (of the relative clause) but logically it is par excellence a defining one. Is there some sort of divergence between grammar and logic in the cited sentence?
Is "which analyses and categorises spending habits, sends budgeting nudges and allows users to freeze and unfreeze cards at the click of a button" a non-defining relative clause in the sentence above?
--------------------It seems to me that it is grammatically a non-defining form (of the relative clause) but logically it is par excellence a defining one. Is there some sort of divergence between grammar and logic in the cited sentence?
Top answer
It's non-defining. Its purpose is to give us additional information about "Monzo's app", not to identify which app we are talking about.
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It's non-defining. Its purpose is to give us additional information about "Monzo's app", not to identify which app we are talking about.
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