Strictly speaking, I suppose you could call which a relative adjective or relative determiner in these sentences, but the usual terminology is 'relative pronoun' anyway. It is not at all usual to place the preposition at the end in

My apprehension about this dissipated after the first 10 minutes, by which point I knew that I was in great hands. The man they called John died in 2009, at which time I was in Africa. Strictly speaking, I suppose you could call which a

The number of of takes plural as usual When we are talking about amounts and quantities we usualyy use singular determiners, verbs and pronouns even if the noun is plural. Where is the five pounds I lent you? Twenty miles is a long way to walk.

Am I seriously wrong if I tell her that SINGULAR REGULAR NOUNS (I'm not talking about proper nouns, plural nouns, or pronouns) DO NOT START SENTENCES, but follow an article or a word like "some," "one," "that,"

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This inspires a more general question (and thus a change ... dictionaries claim that they are variants of the same word. "Thy" and "thigh". "Either" and "ether". Those are the canonical two pairs that you

My grammar book says that "articles usually function as adjectives". ... What part of speech do you consider them to be? Determiners (a word class that includes certain pronouns, too). Next! Just how many parts of speech isn't my

Thus spake Adam Entous: Are they? Who says? It's perfectly possible to live without articles - ask any Russian. My grammar book says that "articles usually function as adjectives". It doesn't specifically say they are adjectives.