By Relative pronouns, Grammar

Thanks Clive, I think I understand what you are saying, but it would take me a while to learn this as it is not clear to me when a context switches from plural to singular ('they' is always plural to me). I believe that is something I have to learn from experience as there is no grammar rules to...

I intended to give you an answer, but I suppose I put it in too vague terms. CalifJim has already given you a very good answer, and I could agree with him, but I'll give you another one.There are no universally accepted criteria for grammatical terms and classification. The field is 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...

Alanou wrote: 1. I 've been studying adjective clause via a site. http://netgrammar.altec.org/Units/Unit_10/a101c10_101000.html . A piece of sentence in it that I couldn't understand, "If the subject relative pronoun is followed by the verb be in any tense, both the relative pronoun and the...

1. I 've been studying adjective clause via a site. http://netgrammar.altec.org/Units/Unit_10/a101c10_101000.html . A piece of sentence in it that I couldn't understand, "If the subject relative pronoun is followed by the verb be in any tense, both the relative pronoun and the verb be can be...

I am a seasoned traveller and consequently have first-hand knowledge of quite a few variants of English. I must say that contrary to what people in some of the countries listed in the URL you have given may say, English is definitely not spoken by nearly all of the people. A teenage daughter of a...

Yes, as J Lewis has mentioned, it's a defining relative clause. Also, SEE this link in its entirety: ------- NOTE: It is preferable to use that (not which) after the following words: all, any(thing), every (thing), few, little, many, much, no(thing), none, some(thing), and after...

I have another question about the clause where she was the only female from the sentence Mary was working at Pete's Cafe, where she was the only female. Is the clause--which I can gather is dependent and nonessential--an adjective clause or another kind of clause? I thought it may have been an...

Anonymous wrote: 1.Combine each set of simple sentences below to produce the kind of sentence specified in parentheses. 1) People begin to recycle. They generate much less trash. (Complex.) <No idea, but TIP: Using subordinating conjunctions!> 2) Environmentalists have...

My grammar book gives an additional comment that it's sometimes easier for us ESL students to understand this "as" as a quasi relative pronoun.