In Verbs^x, Relative pronouns^x

Hi Englishpros The woman is a TV reporter who is standing in the hotel elevator 1 Someone suggests the sentence above should be wrong Why __ A stative verb generally cannot be made into a passive sentence However some stative verbs have active forms in which the verb has another meaning 2 Is in...

Another question about the structure Among the most complex crystals are that of silicon dixide which has seven different structures at various temperatures and pressures the most common being quartz Many doubtful points here The answer is B So I suspect that that should be those which is...

Hello I was wondering if anyone could please help me with the following question I m supposed to figure out from a list of sentences which ones contain NOUN compliment clause Type 2 According to my teacher Type 2 clauses are a grammatical unit containing a verb element and participants finite...

Try this Karol 1 The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the prepositional object but the particle of a phrasal verb can generally precede or follow the direct object 2 When the object is a personal pronoun the pronoun follows the particle of a prepositional verb but precedes the...

subject verb inversion in indirect speech 1 I don t know what is the right answer 2 I don t know what the right answer is The sentence 2 would be better But I think the sentence 1 is not completely incorrect if one takes the what as an relative pronoun What I would like to ask is whether the...

He swallowed a lot of new questions which had just occured to him and looked instead at the thousands of narrow boxes piled neatly right to the ceiling He swallowed and looked instead subject verbs joined by a conjunction adverb swallowed a lot of new questions verb complement of the verb i e...

Wren martin says When the subject of a verb is a relative pronoun care should be taken to see that the verb agrees uin number and person with the antecedent of the relative as 1 This is one of the most interesting novels that have not has appeared this year The antecedent of that is novels not...

I guess if you don t know the verb at all you re stuck Lana There are no prescriptive rules only guidelines Greenbaum Quirk list five differences 1 The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the object but the particle of a phrasal verb can either precede or follow the d o 2 When the...

Hello Hanuman The person whom I admire is the grammatically correct form Also correct is the same structure without the relative pronoun The person I admire By the way the subject of your thread is verb but your question is about pronouns relative pronouns who and whom If you d like to have a...

Who as an interrogative pronoun has three cases who whom and whose They exclusively refer to people Hey who ate my poptart I know not for whom this letter was sent Whose hundred dollar bill is this If the interrogative pronoun replaces the subject of the sentence use the nominative case form Who...