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Solomon_13000 wrote:Are the sentences using the underlined word (pronoun and so on) as shown below correct? Interrogative pronoun/relative pronoun The lady whom you saw just now is my teacher. I consulted a doctor whom I met in Paris I am not sure whom did he invited for the wedding ...

Well, here's a cautionary phrase I just learned myself the other day:Whiz DeletionsSubordinate clauses are often introduced by such words as "which is," "who was," "that are," etc. Deleting these words (the relative pronoun and linking verb) is known as "whiz-deletion." For example: The...

Hi, In fact, if you look in a good dictionary you will see that the word but has six jobs to do: verb, noun, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjuction! http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts-of-speech_3.htm I cannot find any examples of but used as a verb or a pronoun in the online...

Tanit wrote: Hi, good question! I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence: He is one that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. After some...

Zj.frank wrote:Dear all: He is one of the few that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. Do the two "that"s denote different things? Shall we say that the first "that" denotes "he" while the second "that" denotes "the few"? If...

The mistake you're making here is that you are assuming "greatness" and "disaster" are both functioning as nouns in these sentences. They are not. To understand a word's 'part of speech,' you must see how it functions in the sentence. The same word can have a different part of speech in...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze wrote:Fortunately English is structurally so simple... ?Hi ForbesIn the days of Old English the grammar of the language was more complicated than it is today: nouns had three genders, and there were even strong masculines as there are in modern German, 's' wasn't the...

"33.6 Though the relative and interrogative pronouns and adverbs beginning with wh are identical in form, it is possible in most cases to tell whether a clause is relative or interrogative. What is relative in 'I insist on paying what it has cost,' but interrogative in 'I insist on knowing...

No, you remain confused; don't say any of those things. The three pronouns in the original sentence (which, those, who) are not all related equally.Lift not the painted veil which call Life.'Those' is the simple subject of the verb 'call'.'Who' is the subject of the verb 'live'.'Who live' is an...

Clive wrote:I don't see any of these as relative clauses. They are noun clauses. eg noun clause I read what he wrote.eg relative clause I read the letter which he wrote. Here, which he wrote is relative (ie relates to) the noun 'letter'. I don't see any indirect questions, either. Hi...