How about the sentence " The probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5 " ? Is this a case of "content clause in apposition" ? Yes. There's nothing missing syntactically in An unbiased coin will

There is one thing I would like to mention quickly, though. Some of your last post seems to be trying to compare apple with oranges. He told me something that happened yesterday. That happened yesterday he told me. (Possible, but that is a

What do you think of this rewording: - That we can't afford it is the simple reason we aren't going. It occurs in informal speech, as you know. Sorry, but the sentence I posted above strikes me as more formal than the original version. In

What do you think of this rewording: - That we can't afford it is the simple reason we aren't going. It occurs in informal speech, as you know. In no way does it change the grammatical nature of that, of course. I cannot think of relative

That is a conjunction in the second sentence, not a relative pronoun! I agree. More specifically I'd call it a complementizer. It makes the clause we can't afford it subordinate. In any case, that has no antecedent in the preceding text

I remember the day that he came. We aren’t going for the simple reason that we can’t afford it. Is 'that' used as an adverb in the above sentences ? In the first sentence that is indeed adverbial in character, which is obvious if we

I remember the day that he came. We aren’t going for the simple reason that we can’t afford it. Why do you think "that" might be an adverb in those two sentences, Debpriya De? The word "that" is very often used as a relative

Dear friend, you'd better specify your question, as listing every possible meaning of 'what' will be of little help. Here are some of the most common meanings: 1. Interrogative pronoun - asking for information specifying something:

I know where to go. (same sentence - no case conflict) I'm as comfortable saying that "where" is what I know and "to go" answers the question; as I am to say that "to go" is what I know and "where"

Could someone please check I have the right terminology for these words I will list first the terminology I have to use, then I will write the words and the terminology I think it is in red next to each word. Most of them are simple enough but