By Clauses, Relative pronouns

Re: Please check these for me. thanks.

Only the first choice is grammatical. This is a complex sentence (I hope). Write a story is a clause which may stand alone. You are then adding a phrase (or clause) to modify "story." "Beginning with "I hate you." is a perfectly legal participial phrase (I...

Re: preposition+obj pronoun+?

Hi Anc - I wasn't suggesting you use does instead of do in your "third type of construction." I thought if I understood why you wanted to use "do" it might give me a clue as to what you have in mind. If you could only give us an example using "do" which...

Re: preposition+obj pronoun+?

 Clive : I mean the preposition "with" -> pronoun/noun (a boy) --> participle/relative pronoun. And also others preposition like, of, from, for,after and all this kind of preposition to introduce a subordinate clause .  I was wondering whether a bare infinitive could be used after...

Re: Does this sentence sound right?

I find your sentence very satisfactory. It may be Jane Austenish but there is no law against such language even today. Why should everybody speak and write in exactly the same way in English? People don't do that in many other languages. I see no mistakes in punctuation or hyphens but I know...

Re: Is it a subject relative?

Hello.Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs.What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

Re: relative pronoun VS participle

Hi NewcomerYour question is far too broad to be answered here. Books have been written about participles used as clause equivalents.CB

Re: truncation possibly this but not that

Hi Anon, I was intrigued by this issue, as I too could see no substantial difference between the examples. I think it comes down to a simple misunderstanding. The Anon said, "The dilemma how to know what and how much to truncate, Mr.M." When we say,"There is Superman, up in the...

Re: has/have?

You are mistaken. Bangkok is ... has the subject and verb of the main clause. cities is the antecedent of the relative pronoun that. The verb within the relative clause must agree in number with the antecedent cities, not with the subject of the main clause (Bangkok) nor with its subject...

Re: which/that/who

I think this would be impossible to distinguish the difference when speaking not writing. If I said: Two men who I had never seen before came into the office, who would know if I used the comma or not and how to interpret it? So in your opinion Kooyeen I can write: Two men I had never seen...

Re: which/that/who

I don't think the number of jackets or men is important when considering relative clauses.