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In older literature, the pronoun "one" or the indefinite article was used before a person's name when the character was first introduced to the reader. The setting usually was a conversation between two people talking about the third character. It's an old British literary...

It's not wrong. Normally in English sentences are ordered "Subject (S), Verb (V), Indirect Object (IO), Direct Object (DO)" but can run OSV, and, where pronouns are used in substitution of either the subject or object (e.g. your sentence) there are no word order constraints so OVS...

In my experience in reading the literature of linguistics the term appositive (that clause) is restricted to content clauses; the term is not typically applied to relative clauses.That's a good observation about the difference in the use of that in these two types of clauses, by the way. In...

if you call this a relative clause, then the clause is relative to . . . what?Much of the literature on the topic says where is both the antecedent and the relative pronoun all in one. That's why it's often called "fused". I know the place in/at which the pen is. = I know where the pen...

Kooyeen wrote:I have no idea. He (or maybe she) has a simple and clear style of writing, no strange mistakes or typos, punctuation is generally ok... It really seems a post written by me! (apart from "indeed", I really don't use that word much). I noticed it aswell, but who know, maybe while...

At Yahoo: "the thing what they want" 133 hits and most of them are from: "... thing. What they want ..." "thing that they want" 9,310 hits thus forget about the first. Also, at Google, a search in online literature with: site:literaturepost.com "thing what they want" did...

The conjunction and shouldn't be combined with a relative pronoun. Oh this is a new info for me! In fact, what I quoted was Lafcadio Hearn's lecture on literature course at Tokyo University around 1900. This is exactly what he said: "The highest ought to be one that treats of ethical...

I'd like to thank all those who gave their answers. I don't think there are right or wrong answers - and it certainly isn't for me to say what is acceptable and what isn't. For those who are interested in a nonnative speaker's comments, I'll provide some. 1. Susan is a...

For the rest, Kela, I'm going to give you hints (in blue), so that you can try to improve things yourself. (A repeated problem is your use of indefinite pronouns--for instance, writing 'he' when the reader doesn't know which person 'he' refers to. Rommel described himself as a boy who doesn’t...

As to this, I'd like to put my two cents. When English retained cases explicitly, the subject noun and the complement noun linked by a linking verb were both in nominative cases. So, "I " in the normal word order. However, in Old English, inversion easily took place between the subject and the...