By Relative pronouns, Prepositions

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...

Who as an interrogative pronoun has three cases: who, whom and whose. They exclusively refer to people: Hey, who ate my poptart? I know not for whom this letter was sent. Whose hundred-dollar-bill is this? If the interrogative pronoun replaces the subject of the sentence, use the nominative...

Hello again, Malory. Last night, I couldn't get one of the sentences you posted out of my mind. Rather, what I couldn't get out of my mind was the answer I gave you. So this morning I did some "research" and found out why I was feeling uncomfortable with my response. The sentence in question is...

Who, whom and whose are relative pronouns. Who and whom are used for persons. They introduce relative clauses postmodifying the head of a noun phrase, and they are identical in form with interrogative pronouns but function differently. Who: nominative form. "The student who failed the test was...

Regarding who/whom 1) The relative pronoun is the subject of the relative clause => who. "John is the only one who understands me" 2) The relative pronoun is the object of the relative clause => who/whom. Whom is more formal than who. "John is the only one who/m/ I understand." 3) The...

Hi, sorry for not trying to answer. I’ve just dumped reference material from the net. Hope it helps. "such" Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. Ed. Robert Allen. Oxford University such. 1. SUCH AS AN EMPHASIZER. How can the House express its indignant rejection of football hooliganism...

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the words 1 Than 2 that 1 Than is normally used to...

When we talk about comparison between people, things or actions, we can use "as" or "like", depending on the structure. "Like" is a preposition which should be followed by a noun or a pronoun. Example: I'm not _like_ my brother. "As" is a conjunction which should be followed by a clause...

' As ' can be used as a conjuction too. As he was poor I helped him. ' Like ' has a few uses As a preposition, eg : Do not talk like that. As a verb eg : Children like sweets. ** She likes the color as I do. ( ' like ' is verb and ' as ' a relative pronoun denoting ' color '.