Hi 1. Your second reading is correct. The conjunction and connects the two noun phrases his wife and the warm love of the niece . I'd probably read that as just one prepositional phrase in which his wife and the warm love.. are both

Is the antecedent of 'which' always the noun immediately before 'which'? For example, a copyright notice on the XYZ website The permission does not extend to any materials on the linked websites or any contents on the XYZ

(Some grammarians insist on antecendent nouns; others do not. However, I find it difficult to come up with good examples of "whoever" and "whomever" that include clear antecendent nouns.) Hello Doctor D The pronouns

Appositives normally do not require an introductory element such as that and which is. 1. So are you saying it could/is preferred to be written like this, ed_shaw? This explanation, people are inherently evil , is one of the most

Normally, we do not think of relative pronouns as 'linking' clauses as much as we think of them as 'introducing' restrictive elements, 'relating' one clause to the other more than linking two of them. In your example,

Adj after noun: But in your first three sentences, the ‘–ing words’ are verbs, not ‘participles as adjectives’. Just because they are participle in form says nothing about their syntactic function. For a participle to be adjectival it needs

Hi lucas21c Judging by the posts on this thread there seems to be some confusion about how to analyse your first sentence. Perhaps this will help: Two interesting things are going on in that sentence: extraposition and the use of a

Not OK. In this one there's no relative pronoun that connects back to friends -- just who , which connects back to one . The result of this mistake is that the second part of the sentence is just a dangling fragment of a sentence.

Rahul: (l) Yes, most grammarians say that the antecedent of "which" is "The police found the murder weapon"; however, a few don't know whether it is accurate to call "which made the prosecutor's job easier" an

Frankly, I cannot work through all your analysis, but 1a and 1b are good, 2a is of course bad, and 2b is still find grammatically, as 'them' is the object of a preposition. Would you prefer that it read ' their idiomatic use and right