By Nouns, Relative pronouns

Dear Teachers Can I say like this: "Basically everything is shared at the same time, which causes a slower performance" Is the "which" acting as relative pronoun Thanks

I find your sentence very satisfactory. It may be Jane Austenish but there is no law against such language even today. Why should everybody speak and write in exactly the same way in English? People don't do that in many other languages. I see no mistakes in punctuation or hyphens but I know...

Hello.Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs.What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

Hi again, Anewcomer. The answer to this question is clearly, "No." Try posting a single example which you find confusing, or perhaps two examples which you feel are in conflict. There's no rule that's going to cover all relative pronouns and all past and present participles...

Hi NewcomerYour question is far too broad to be answered here. Books have been written about participles used as clause equivalents.CB

Hi, Do the words "continuous" and "progressive" help? In your primary examples the action is / was going on "as we speak / spoke!" In some of your secondary examples we're looking at the results of a past action. "I saw a man who was kicked by a...

Yes, there are differences in meaning for a couple of your examples. - I like to hear people saying good news VS I like to hear people who say good news I prefer it when people talk about good news VS I prefer it when people who talk about good news... (this sentence is incomplete) - I saw...

Hi Teachers 1. I'd like to know that, is the use of "who,which,that"(relative pronoun) interchangeably with participle (both past and present) for Objective pronouns for every instance? 2. Any difference in meaning?  And  How do we know when to use which one appropriately? I.e :-  I...

Hi nocy, thanks for taking me up on my offer. Now what am I going to do? As CJ and Yankee have explained the infinitive in this situation is a special case, and must be either one way or the other. You can't mix and match. You can throw out the infinitive, and say, "There is a...

thank you guys for relying //Avangi // i i think (B) also can be correct, because preposition can be put either in front of 'which' or the end of sentence. and i know a relative pronoun can be omitted, when it is objective. if so, isn't 'There is a bench which to...