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

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

The 2 nd one is correct. The 2 nd main verb “has” in the subordinate clause must agree with the relative pronoun “who” in number (singular in this case) and person (3 rd person in this case).

Hello, Chris, this clause would be an adjective clause , right? in fact, one should distinguish between relative clauses and adjective clauses , which are more precisely termed supplementive adjective clauses and represent only a special case of

Gleb Chebrikoff, thank you for your response. It's really informative and interesting--I agree with your analysis of "tell." 3. (d; intr., tr.) ('to inform') to — about, of (he didn't want to — about the incident; — me

The sentence is very awkward in my opinion. Which is a relative pronoun. The underlined phrase refers to the "that" clause. I would say: I know that it fell and that's why / therefore / consequently it has to be taken to a vet. CB

Good evening, Chris, these are thought-provoking questions you have asked, and here is my opinion backed up by data from authoritative sources. 1. The possibility of tell filling the slot of talk in the example sentence seems questionable at