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Hi, Anon, I suggest that you post this in General English Grammar Questions so teachers could find it. "Help" section is for questions about occuring problems while using the site.

Anonymous wrote:As a woman, the results of the study are a little bit depressing, Aged 30, it was my looks which attracted my husbandThe highlighted parts are not clauses. To my mind they are incorrect clause equivalents. Logic and common sense tells me that they are meant to express a...

Central Park, which has some good jogging trails, is beautiful and green.Central Park, where you can jog around the trails, is beautiful and green.Where and which both introduce the relative clause. Where and which both refer back to the subject of the sentence "Central Park". In English...

Inchoateknowledge wrote:I am stu.id "The book (which is) being on the table" is not possible -- being is redundant The book (which is) on the table is mine. The book on the table is mine. OK.Hi InchoActually whether the main verb of the relative clause can be used in a continuous tense or...

Clive wrote:Hi, If he called, tell him I'll be back soon If you said that to me, I would have no idea what you meant. I certainly wouldn't see it as referring to any kind of future calling. It sounds like you are telling me "if he called in the past, tell him (when? next time he calls?) that...

I see. Thank you for your help anyway.In fact, I was wondering and trying to guess, looking at my English grammar book, what the "adjective clause pronoun" is!

According to one English grammar book, it says: "General guideline: Place an adjective clasue pronoun as close as possible to the noun it modifies." If I take this word right, does this mean a) is better than b) in the following sentences (if I want to modify the noun "that lady")? a) That lady,...

Rahul Malhotra wrote:but, i dont know why so many books on english grammar says that modals should not be used in the condition of conditionals and can only be used in the result. Often, this is caused by this situation where the above rule is correct: ---------- would have for had. In...

CalifJim wrote: But what if one of the actions did not occur at all? To express this situation, the past perfect in the before-clause is available. This pattern implies the non-completion of the action in the before-clause. Here, the action in the main clause interrupts the intended action...

Hello everyone, I have some trouble with recognizing subject-verb agreement in cases where the verb occurs in the sub-ordinate clause and refers back to a noun/subject in the main clause For instance could you please let me know which of the following sentences is correct. 1)In good years,...