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You can use the full form, the 'pro' form, or just the pronoun. In the last case, note that isolated subject pronouns after than are often expressed as object pronouns in informal situations. The 'pro' form is the echo of the operator (modal or auxiliary) -- do if the first...

Hi Anon, I was intrigued by this issue, as I too could see no substantial difference between the examples. I think it comes down to a simple misunderstanding. The Anon said, "The dilemma how to know what and how much to truncate, Mr.M." When we say,"There is Superman, up in the...

You are mistaken. Bangkok is ... has the subject and verb of the main clause. cities is the antecedent of the relative pronoun that. The verb within the relative clause must agree in number with the antecedent cities, not with the subject of the main clause (Bangkok) nor with its subject...

Hi NGYou are right. Indirect questions fall in three categories.1. There is a word that can begin a clause but the word is not the subject.What did he say? - Tell me what he said.2. There isn't a word that can begin a clause. If or whether must be used.Did he come in time? - Tell me...

I think this would be impossible to distinguish the difference when speaking not writing. If I said: Two men who I had never seen before came into the office, who would know if I used the comma or not and how to interpret it? So in your opinion Kooyeen I can write: Two men I had never seen...

I don't think the number of jackets or men is important when considering relative clauses.

I have underlined some problem areas: The Woman Within the Doll The Baltimore Sun wrote that back in 1879, “A Doll's House” by Henrik Ibsen “shocked and offended people wherever feet” (1031). This might have caused him to become the “half-drowned” kind of man, as he refers...

Hi, If Harrison isnt playing (which he isn't) I think Colts aren't gonna win. Is which is a relative pronoun? Yes.Which doesn't have to refer a particular thing,right? It has to refer to something, but it does not have to be a noun. eg it can be a clause.If it has to, where does...

True, but that's not the point. that is not a pronoun in the proof that they are spies. That is, that does not substitute in any way for the noun proof.Contrast:In the proof that the scientist provided, the scientist provided "that", namely, provided the proof. In the proof that...

In my experience in reading the literature of linguistics the term appositive (that clause) is restricted to content clauses; the term is not typically applied to relative clauses.That's a good observation about the difference in the use of that in these two types of clauses, by the way. In...