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Pradeep_tp wrote: Hello english world, I have been facing difficulty in understanding the usage of the words 'that ' and 'which'. I have no clear understanding of which word is more appropriate in what situation. 'Which' and 'that' overlap when it comes to relative clauses. In this specific...

"Which" is pronoun or determiner, acting as subject or object in its clause. "Which" also a question word to show what kind of information is wanted. In addtion to, " which" can be used to modify nouns and some pronouns--to identify things. Furthermore, " which " can also be conjunction. which...

Mister Micawber wrote: After imported doesn't work. The various subordinators are restricted to the types of clauses they can introduce. After cannot introduce -ed nonfinite clauses, whereas when and once can. There are all kinds of caveats. For instance, in -ing nonfinite clauses, after...

Hi Zig, and welcome to English Forums. A bit of a mess, eh wot? who says what what anyone says In both clauses, the 'what's are the verb objects, while 'who' and 'anyone' are the subjects. BUT: It doesn't matter who says what It doesn't matter what anyone says The objects (or...

Hello People One of my English grammar books (written in Japanese) says about "as"-including concessive adverbial clauses as follows; Construction: To Komountain Koyama is so common a surname in Japan. It is "small mountain" but has not any negative sense. paco

Nona and Matthew Your replies are very helpful. The literature said that grammarians call this kind of clause's rightward movement as extraposition. When the subject determiner is 'a', we can move the restrictive relative clause but when it is 'the' we can't. I didn't still grasp the reason but...

Hi Taka, Yes I've found the reference-- it's over in 'adjectives', and has to do with the rather anomalous order of adjectives with intensifiers 'how, too' etc. where the order of indefinite article and attibutive adjective is reversed. So, just as we cannot have 'X how lovely flowers these...

Hello, Zyph, and welcome to the forums. Congratulations! Your analysis is perfect. "His secretary" is -not just 'must be'- a noun phrase. It has a determiner (his) and a noun as head (secretary). Object complements are usually either noun phrases/clauses or adjectival phrases/clauses. You...

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...

Here's an example in which both are correct: is that it appears to be the object of the possessive adjective "your". In a normal noun phrase, a possessive determiner cannot be omitted: I regretted his decision. I regretted decision. The sentence becomes ungrammatical with the removal of...