Hi, the preposition "of" in this sentence: an act of performing a play or a piece of music, does it mean ' that is ' (the relative pronoun 'that' and the verb be)? Thanks so much!

Rahul: (l) Yes, most grammarians say that the antecedent of "which" is "The police found the murder weapon"; however, a few don't know whether it is accurate to call "which made the prosecutor's job easier" an

What i I am trying to ask is that whether Which which is correct in the first sentence since the noun Weapon weapon is creating ambiguity , or not?? According to most grammarians today, that use of which is correct. I do remember reading

In sentence The police found the weapon ,which made prosecutor's job easier . My friend says which is refering to weapon and hence this construcion is wrong .He says it should be The police found the weapon,making prosecutpr's job

The police found the murder weapon,which made the prosecutor's job much easier As others have said, the sentence is correct (if you add a space after the comma and a full stop / period at the end). In theory, which can refer to both the

yes I was mixing nouns with antecedent . I was trying to say if their are several candidates(nouns) that can serve as an antecedent . In sentence The police found the weapon ,which made prosecutor's job easier . My friend says which

Do relative pronouns follow the nearest antecedent ??? You are speaking as if there were several antecedents, and one of them is nearest the relative pronoun, where in fact there is always only one. You are confusing "noun" with

Do relative pronouns follow the nearest antecedent ???

There is no ambiguity here and only someone without much better to do with take exception to this sentence. The "which" refers to the entire sense of finding the murder weapon.

The police found the murder weapon,which made the prosecutor's job much easier wht about this