By Indirect questions, Pronouns

Hi NGYou are right. Indirect questions fall in three categories.1. There is a word that can begin a clause but the word is not the subject.What did he say? - Tell me what he said.2. There isn't a word that can begin a clause. If or whether must be used.Did he come in time? - Tell me...

Hi,How would I grammatically deconstruct the following sentence?Melinda wanted to know how long the trip would take.I may be WAAAAY off the mark but this is my attempt:A) Melinda is the subject.B) wanted is the main (transitive) verb.C) to know is the object, even though it is actually a...

Conjunction Does he know "when" the concert is starting? No. Interrogative pronoun in an indirect question.James had to retype his document "when" his computer crashed OKKevin learned Japanese language "when" he was in Japan OK Verb I "was doing" my homework when the doorbell...

The correcto one is "Do you know where it is", because this is an indirect question. The interrogative pronoun is in the middle of the sentence

Clive wrote:Would you call this a relative clause? I don't know where the pen is. What would you say it relates to?Hi CliveI learned my grammatical terminology as a schoolboy and as far as I can remember most of the terms I learned were applicable to all the languages I studied. There were/are...

Clive wrote:I don't see any of these as relative clauses. They are noun clauses. eg noun clause I read what he wrote.eg relative clause I read the letter which he wrote. Here, which he wrote is relative (ie relates to) the noun 'letter'. I don't see any indirect questions, either. Hi...

A day will come when you will no longer remember my face. when here is a conjunction wordA relative clause is introduced by a relative pronoun. When is not a relative pronoun. consequently, there is no relative clause in the sentence Tell me when you will arrive. yes, the object is a noun...

This is not a mandatory rule. It's something which is often done (thus, to me, optional), per Swan. Which part is not mandatory? I may have misunderstood, but I'm assuming the rule you are referring to is: will cannot be used in a when clause where when is an adverbial conjunction. I...

1 Whoever wins will be expected to take the rest of us for a meal. 2 I don't know who knows the truth. whoever (fused relative pronoun equivalent to he who) has the semantic component no matter who it is or anyone who. The first sentence means: The person who wins, no matter who...

(A knock on the door) Mr. Ko: Who is it? (No answers. Mr. Ko opens the door and finds no one at the door, so he closes it. A little later, he hears another knock on the door.) Mr. Ko: Who is it? (Again, he opens the door and finds no one out there. A minute later he hears yet another...