that was special
What happened to you that was special?
As for the above sentence,I wonder what the use of 'that was special' is in grammar, is it an adjective clause that modify 'what'?

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that was special
What happened to you that was special?
   As for the above sentence,I wonder what the use of 'that was special' is in grammar, is it an adjective clause that modify 'what'?

Answer

这句"话"的意思是: 发生到你身上的特殊事情。

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What happened to you that was special.这不是一个完整的句子，而是一个名词短语，或者就是一个大的名词概念。
(This is not a complete sentence, but a noun phrase or just a big noun concept).
这儿what 引导名词性从句: what happened to you 是中心名词，意思是" 发生到你身上的事情，不要把它当作特殊疑问句概念。
Here noun clause is introduced by what: "What happened  to you" is the center noun, meaning Things that happen to you ,don't put it as a wh-question concept)
你可以把 what happened to you 想象成"获得大奖"，然后后面一个有关系代词 that 引导的定语从句修饰前面的名词(获得大奖)"这件事"。
You can think of the " what happened to you" as the "winning a big prize", followed by an attributive clause introduced by the relative pronoun "that" modifying  the preceding noun this thing (winning a big prize)

What happened to you that was special =  the thing that was special  → the thing, the thing was special,
把 what happened to you当作一个名词 thing 就非常容易理解了，关键者不是一个句子，可能是一个标题。

you can Think of the " what happened to you" as a noun "thing", which  is very easy to understand, the nub is here it is  not a sentence, may be a title.

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