CalifJim , Thank you for your very helpful answer! It provides a nice and very useful recipe for forming a question which rests on a gappy statement! And it definitely helped me a lot in further clarifying my question and to reframe it in your

Dear friend, the clauses within your sentence are correlative clauses of proportion (a kind of adverbial clauses), the comma is obligatory to separate them. One dominant use of a comma is to separate closely associated clauses within a sentence

Dear friend, when the antecedent ( others ) is personal and the pronoun is the subject of the relative clause, who is favoured, irrespective of the style and the occasion, although there is nothing wrong or odd about using that. Respectfully, Gleb

Different grammar textbooks use different terms, so I can only guess what you are working with here. Maybe you could provide some examples of sentences that contain clauses that are troubling you. In the meantime, I suspect that a 'noun

Do/does/did is not used in questions 1. with forms of to be : Is he happy? Were they swimming? 2. with perfect and past perfect auxiliaries : Have you seen him? Had it already begun? 3. sometimes with have/has/had when the verb is in the

You can, but native speakers normally use simple present in the subordinate clause: I'll do what I'm asked to do.

Hi Cute572 The word "that" is a relative pronoun in your sentence. It refers back to "report" and it introduces a defining relative clause . The word "he" is the subject of the clause.

Hello Gleb, Thank you, again, for your answer! Let me say from the outset, that I am neither a native speaker, nor an expert in linguistics, but nonetheless interested, so please forgive me that I am not as well-versed as far as technical terms

Usually you can't use WILL in a WHEN clause. so whenever would be the same thing. I'd say I'll come to your house and find you whenver you're hiding.

I will do whatever he asks me to to do. I would use this one (as corrected). This whatever structure is similar to a conditional structure with if . The if clause does not contain will . Likewise for the whatever clause. I will do whatever he