Dear speakers of English. I have a question concerning English relative clause which had long been my headache. Here is my sentence: He is the son of Mike, who is my best friend. My question is: which one should be the antecedent of the

1) He was as handsome a young man as ever walked along the streets of London. 2) He is as handsome as the young man I don't understand the word order of the second sentence in the above. English has a pair of correlative conjunctions

useful observations. The first noun is almost always indefinite ("a ... but not "the friends of ours" or any other specifier). Just before he makes that observation, on p. 227 in my copy of /Modern English Usage/ One more reason to

Because then we'd have to accept that "Queen" in "The Queen of England" is a "separate form" from "Queen" in "The Queen of England's". Or else that the separate form is

We questioned whether a preposition before another preposition is gramatically correct or not two days ago here. After that, We've got a lot of answers of how to analysing that structure in many ways. :-) Now we will post our conclusion about

We concluded our research about the English grammar concerning preposition after a preposition. 1. prepositions don't necessarily have to govern noun phrases only.Some prepositions can also govern a prepositional phrase. Such prepositions are

Or, in US English, "it's so a common mistake". At least that was the gist of a discusion here a few months ago. I don't recall the resolution of any such discussion. However, I think in my version of US English: "It is so a

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