In Constructions^x, Clauses^x

Tanit wrote: Hi, good question! I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence: He is one that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. ...

Zj.frank wrote: Dear all: He is one of the few that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. Do the two "that"s denote different things? Shall we say that the first "that" denotes "he" while the second "that" denotes...

An example would be, 'The regulation included monthly and hourly rates, daily rates having been omitted.' The five-word phrase at the end of this sentence comprises a participle with its own subject or nominative. I forget why it is called 'absolute'. The only book I know that mentions the...

Hello Anon, Mr.chan has a clock that the minute hand of ___ has come off A.which B.it why the ans is A? There are people who continue to insist that you can't end a sentence with a preposition. Instead of saying This is the book + + I read + from, they prefer This is the book + from...

Hi Rik, Welcome to the forums. I always put a comma in constructions like B, in which you have a dependent clause preceding the independent clause.

It's not a progressive. In other words it's not are composing . It comes from There are a few students who compose the third group. The relative clause is transformed into a participial construction. There are a few students composing the third group. And this is then...

It seems to me that the tense in the relative construction would naturally take its tense from the tense of the main clause, so the expansions are: The man who is working in this company is very rich. The man who was working in this company was very rich. CJ

sorry for the late reply. staying in a friend's home at Singapore right now. The food is alright but a kind of 'hot'. got sour throat for that. well... that's not exactly what I was asking for. What I thought we need to know before making syllabuses of any shape is some underlying aims. For...

CalifJim wrote: << He got up before the sun had risen.>> Yes. Here it's not a matter of the sun's rising never happening, but of the sun not yet rising at the time of the getting up. So phrasing it as "never happening" is clearly not correct. " not yet happening by the...

Which of the two would you say is in use here? ??? Is this a Type 2 Conditional? Yes. ... would ... if ... 1. It would be better/nicer if you spent your time studying rather than idling around. I am not sure if the above sentence is correct It's fine. but I think I am hearing a...