In Clauses^x, Genitives^x

What are the rules for using "what" in the way I did in this thread title? I first heard it in the TV cartoon series "The Tick", which has a bad guy called "The Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight". I've been told that the standard pronouns are who, whom, which and that: "Who" is used...

Hi, I am having a problem with the "of clause". (I am not asking the genitive use of "of") According to the dictionary, the word "of" has meaning like "belong to", "contain", "connected with" or "about" etc... (in some dictionaries, it has meaning like "from" too) But it's not enough...

Miriam, Many thanks for your thoughtful expansion of Pem's analysis. I'll first address the specific questions you've raised, then re-state more thoroughly the case which the Cambridge book is making for the gerund's redefinition. Consider the following two sentences: 1. I can't stand...

Dave, First of all, and even when everyone is surely aware of this, I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good, I'm not a grammarian or a linguist. It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a language that is not even my own in depth when I...