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Please tell me if my reasoning regarding the following sentences is correct and or add your explanation 1 When parents have poor listening habits their children usually do As a common sense it would seem better with do than with have but cannot explain why Why do is better 2 I am not so...

Hello CB Yes I m inclined to agree with you The writer has presented a stylistic choice as a grammatical rule This also seems to be untrue The pronoun he cannot refer to the possessive noun Orwell s Clearly it does as we both understood the sentence MrP

This is one example from that page Make sure that a pronoun refers to a specific noun not a possessive noun or a noun within a prepositional phrase Faulty In George Orwell s essay Shooting an Elephant he reports an incident that shows the evil effects of imperialism The pronoun he cannot refer to...

Tsvsom wrote Make sure that a pronoun refers to a specific noun not a possessive noun or a noun within a prepositional phrase Does it give an example Tsv A possessive noun and a noun within a prepositional phrase can still be specific nouns MrP

Tsvsom wrote I came across following grammer rule suggestion for pronoun antecedent Make sure that a pronoun refers to a specific noun not a possessive noun or a noun within a prepositional phrase Why pronoun cannot refer to a noun within a prepositional phrase What is wrong with the following...

Tsvsom wrote Make sure that a pronoun refers to a specific noun not a possessive noun or a noun within a prepositional phrase Why pronoun cannot refer to a noun within a prepositional phrase What is wrong with the following sentence in the context of the above rule The moisture exhaled by the...

Hello I came across following grammer rule suggestion for pronoun antecedent Make sure that a pronoun refers to a specific noun not a possessive noun or a noun within a prepositional phrase Why pronoun cannot refer to a noun within a prepositional phrase What is wrong with the following sentence...

Yankee wrote I think the reason not to use your has to do with parallel structure more than anything else Your failure to pay will result in your prosecution lt lt Your failure to pay will result in your prosecution gt gt I see it differently Failure to may will result in something is a...

Hi what is the different between those things it Pronoun eg That s a nice sweater I like it its Possessive adjective eg That s a nice sweater I like its colour which Has various meanings eg relative pronoun I bought a sweater which is red in which Ths is just an expression using a preposition...

If you look at Meriam Webster Online Dictionary it defines whose as of or relating to whom or which especially as possessor or possessors Since there s only one possessive relative pronoun it should be used