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Kilimanjaro wrote: Pioussoul wrote: Anonymous wrote: His family, who had gone to Egypt last summer, decided to go to Spain this summer. A) His family, having gone to Egypt last summer, decided to go to Spain this summer. 1. I don't think we can reduce Non-defining relative clauses. In...

I'm not certain. However, I'd say that band names function in a similar fashion to sports teams. If I were writing about the Utah Jazz, I would say "The Jazz are playing tonight." Using that construction I could stay consistent when I replaced "The Jazz" with the pronoun they or compared them to...

Yoong Liat wrote:Goodman wrote, 'Either book is useful. ok, but there could be more than 2 books, perhaps 3; meaning either book A, B or C could be useful..' 'Either' refers to one of two items. Therefore, I do not agree with Goodman that perhaps there are 3 books. Hi Yong"As a pronoun...

Well, I think you can, but it's a different construction, and a bit of a different meaning. it: pronoun in object role so: adverb Also, "he looks it" is similar to "he looks the part": ----- look TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To turn one's eyes on: looked him in the eye. 2. To convey by...

There has been some recent debate on the letter pages of a paper here in London about the verb usage in the sentence "I was stood at the bus stop".I say debate, but really there has been none, since everyone who has written in has equally deplored this usage.I disagree.I think it might be...

With certain interrogative constructions I can't, try as I might, understand why "who" is the pronoun, and not "whom".An example from Fowler's: "You mean Loesby?" "Who do you think I mean?"I thought it would have been "Whom do you think I mean?"Who is the subject and who is the object...

Does the verb to have takes subject form of pronoun after it in any exceptional case. I read the following sentence somewhere. I have never seen any such construction ever but still I am curious about it.It must have been she at the door.GB

"I've come across the term "adjective appositive" and "adverb appositive" a few times, and I'm just wondering if this is widely-used. Is it an incorrect description of a construction that should be called something else? I'm asking this because I always see appositives defined as nouns (or noun...

I've come across the term "adjective appositive" and "adverb appositive" a few times, and I'm just wondering if this is widely-used. Is it an incorrect description of a construction that should be called something else? I'm asking this because I always see appositives defined as nouns (or noun...

This is not a mandatory rule. It's something which is often done (thus, to me, optional), per Swan. Which part is not mandatory? I may have misunderstood, but I'm assuming the rule you are referring to is: will cannot be used in a when clause where when is an adverbial conjunction. I...