By Pronouns, Clauses

Anonymous wrote:I'd really appreciate your reply to my first letter. But in the sentence: "The news that he won surprised us all." that he won- is the noun clause;according to one of the website on the Internet. In the sentence "The fact that the earth is round is obvious." that the earth is...

Anonymous wrote:1. The news that he won surprised us all. (Noun clause?)2. The news which we received last month was unbelievable.3. It is a fact that the earth is round.4. The fact that the earth is round is weel well-known. Hi Sothy Sin, #1 and #2 relative pronoun clauses are of adjectival...

Hi Steve - just thinkin' out loud: "Crucially, the status of (3)," (3) "Who do you wonder which picture of he liked?" Who are the characters in this plot? A. the judge - the "he" who either likes or does not like - or perhaps "prefers" - certain pictures B. the curious person or non-person...

Hi,In the context that you provided, there is no difference in meaning. However, their usage requires some care.Here is my suggestion to all three sentences that you wrote:A sells me a dictionary for $15. After deducting / crediting him with / offsetting the cost against $10 he owes me, I have...

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

"Make up to (the ‘to’ is not necessary) your mind for (space required after ‘for’) yourself what you 'need' and will use the more (the underlined clause doesn’t make sense or doesn’t sound natural?), (This is a ‘comma splice’. Start a new sentence if possible.) if (possibly ‘If’ with a capital...

Omo wrote:Does writing "that" in a sentence where it can be ommited sound formal or polite? Vice versa, does ommiting "that" in that kind of sentence sound informal?I don't think it has anything to do with politeness but omitting a conjunction is probably more common in speech than writing. As...

What you're asking would take several chapters of a book to explain, so let me give you the short version. With a noun, much is used as a adjective. as much means the same amount of. Joe has as much money as Jane has. ________ With an implied noun, much becomes a pronoun. -- How...

Viceidol wrote:First, we can say "hers" instead of "her car" in the following sentence: My car is new, but hers is old. So this is my question: Does the word "its" has the same function? For example: The dog's tail is wounded. Because its is bitten by another dog. I know this sentence is...

hello!Thanks for your reply.I need to find a an adjectival clause in the text where the pronoun is the object of the clause.Here is the whole sentence :Piping up here and there, rising out of the basin to form an erosive volcanic fog-called "vog"- are thick-veiled sulufrous clouds that no stomach...