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Hello Jack The rules for relative adverb clauses are almost the same as for relative pronoun clauses. If no comma precedes 'where', the 'where' clause modifies the antecedent noun phrase restrictively. Your sentence is parsed as follows; "Much of industry is concerned with { (where perhaps...

Hello Latin In most cases 'that' works as a conjunctive or as a relative pronoun. But 'that' can work as a relative adverb in the case it follows 'time' or similar words. When you use 'time that ..' with in/on/at in the that clause, you can take the 'that' as a relative pronoun, and when you use...

Hi, Thanks for all of your contributions. I'd like to especially thank rhetor for your detailed answers. re. The woman is a TV reporter who is standing in the hotel elevator. This was one of the questions on the topic of 'relative pronoun' in an English grammar study program. The answer...

The woman is a TV reporter who is standing in the hotel elevator. There's nothing wrong with this sentence. "Detective: I'm looking for two suspects: one is a man; the other, a woman. Here are their photos. Have you seen them? Helpful Janitor: Sure. The man is an executive who is...

I'm trying to think of a prepositional verb that can be split by an object. 1.Call on (visit) 2.Call up (summon) 1. *I called my friends on. 2. I called my friends up. #2 is a phrasal verb. Also, I don't beleive that a phrasal verb can divided by an adverb 1.I call frequently on my...

Hi Englishpros, * The woman is a TV reporter who is standing in the hotel elevator. 1. Someone suggests the sentence above should be wrong. Why? _________________________________________________________ A stative verb, generally, cannot be made into a passive sentence. However, some stative...

Try this, Karol: 1) The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the prepositional object, but the particle of a phrasal verb can generally precede or follow the direct object. 2) When the object is a personal pronoun, the pronoun follows the particle of a prepositional verb but precedes...

He swallowed a lot of new questions which had just occured to him, and looked instead at the thousands of narrow boxes piled neatly right to the ceiling. He | swallowed ... and looked (instead) subject | verbs joined by a conjunction (adverb) swallowed | a lot of new questions verb | complement...

I guess if you don't know the verb at all, you're stuck, Lana. There are no prescriptive rules, only guidelines. Greenbaum & Quirk list five differences: (1) The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the object, but the particle of a phrasal verb can either precede or follow the...

I wouldn't know how to give a detailed explanation or description of all three types of clause in one post, so let's go step by step. Let's start with adjectival (or relative) clauses, since these are the easiest to identify. They can function only as postmodifiers of a nominal head. This...