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CB, Thank you for your input. At least I know I am not the only one with the PASSIVE approach toward this typeof sentences. <<<Football is a popular sport as an adjective, although it is a past participle. However, some may argue this is a passive voice sentence because my...

played in almost all As ia n and European countries . The sentence consists of a main clause and a relative clause , which has been reduced by omitting the relative pronoun and the passive auxiliary (is). I call such structures clause equivalents, but terminology is unimportant here. The...

I too find 'who are singing?' (and 'who are going?') strange. There doesn't seem to be a problem with the relative pronoun, which supports the point about known referents: 1. 'The people who were singing in the room...' But even where we know at least 22 people are involved, 'who is'...

Hi, sorry for not trying to answer. I’ve just dumped reference material from the net. Hope it helps. "such" Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. Ed. Robert Allen. Oxford University such. 1. SUCH AS AN EMPHASIZER. How can the House express its indignant rejection of football...