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Teo wrote:The following is quoted from A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, page 1251. When the antecedent is modified by a superlative or by one of the post-determiners first, last, next, only, the relative pronoun as subject is usually that, and as object, that or zero rather...

I also feel that the only person who seems more common than the only person that; however, can anyone tell me why the following quotations are just the opposite? The following is quoted from A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, page 1251. When the antecedent is modified by a...

Right or wrong?“For a moment1, I even thought2 that this was some sort of test3 and that this woman was someone from the head office4, testing my loyalty5.” 1: Prepositional phrase used adverbially. 2: Main clause 3: Dependant clause 4: Dependant clause 5: Participial...

Actually, as well as being 'relative pronouns' and 'interrogatives', whose and which are also classed as 'wh-determiners'. I found this on the Wikipedia website for you to refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner Although it doesn't tell you very much, I hope it helps Isn't English fun?

Hi Zig, and welcome to English Forums. A bit of a mess, eh wot? who says what what anyone says In both clauses, the 'what's are the verb objects, while 'who' and 'anyone' are the subjects. BUT: It doesn't matter who says what It doesn't matter what anyone says The objects (or...

"that" is indeed a relative pronoun, but, on the other hand, there is no requirement for the antecedent to be preceded by the determiner "the". Let's choose a restaurant that everybody can agree on. So I don't follow the logic of the first objection to "a" in "a fact". ________ "a" indicates...