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みなさんこんにちは! :D

I've recently been learning about Japanese relativistic-clauses(it all makes
sense now!!!).

Just curious about something, if と can be used like 'and' or 'with', does the
same apply to this brand of clauses?

When translating 'The man who bought milk and didn't buy gas went to bed.',
could you use と to bind the two clauses together before adding something like
人 and the final clause?
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grammar usage relative-clauses
Can 「と」be used with relative-clauses?
No. Unlike English "and/or", case particle と is not a conjunction, which can
connect clauses as well as nouns. It works only when it's combined with a
noun.

In Japanese grammar, you need the verb in the modifying clause to be an
attributive form, in short, する, した, やさしい and きれいだ are to be する, した, やさしい and
きれい **な** respectively.

So, you can express your example as 牛乳を買った、ガソリンを買わなかった男は寝た. This is one form
of solution. (Commas are optional.)

However in practice, you will more often see the former verb is changed into
買い (conjunctive form) or 買って (te form), which technically function as an
adverb that modifies the latter 買わなかった and eventually can modify the 男 through
買わなかった. i.e. 牛乳を買い、ガソリンを買わなかった男, which is the second solution.

The third solution is to use conjunctive particles like …が or …けれども. These
particles need to be used with a terminal form of verbs (する、した、やさしい、きれいだ).
i.e. 牛乳は買ったがガソリンを買わなかった男

(note: you can't use conjunctive particle …し in a modifying clause, in short,
you can say あの人はきれいだし、やさしい for "S/he is beautiful and kind" while you can't
say きれいだし やさしい人 for "a beautiful and kind person".)
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