In many languages which have a corresponding word for of , this word is used with superlatives like best . Not so for English, which uses in before the noun phrase that tells the pool from which the example was drawn. the best player in the group

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

Rahul: (l) Yes, most grammarians say that the antecedent of "which" is "The police found the murder weapon"; however, a few don't know whether it is accurate to call "which made the prosecutor's job easier" an

I am an English grammar instructor. Your explanation is excellent as is your reference to the history of the form. However, you have a few errors technically in your examples. Although my Japanese is not strong, I had the pleasure of studying with

I have always known that after an indefinite pronoun, namely "everyone," "somebody" etc, the correct possessive pronoun to be used is "their." E.g.: Everyone should always do their best. However, the "Canadian

It should be rather than. Instead of must be followed by a noun phrase, so it basically replaces one thing for the other. Rather than shows a preference over two verbs or nouns. Having children is not a "thing"/noun. Sorry, I'm not

Hi, Around the age of sixteen, you must make one of the biggest decision of your life. "Do I stay on at school and hopefully go on to university __? The answer is "later" However, I see people also say "three

Hello vipower, and welcome to English Forums. As a noun phrase, your wording is fine. It is not, however, a complete sentence, since it has no finite verb.

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

In my usage, "well" can be both an adverb and an adjective. In "I can read well", for example, it's an adverb. As an adjective it means (usually) "healthy", as in "I'm very well, thanks",