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Hello. Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs. What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

Hela wrote: Thanks to all of you. and have a nice week. Hello Once more 1) A day will come when you no longer remember my face. when you will no longer remember my face = temporal adjunct -- describes the action, not the noun (day), not an adjectival clause (not relative...

Hello, Hela. Your analysis of the first sentence (I gave my sister a cat for her birthday) is correct. I'd be happy with calling the prepositional phrase "for her birthday" an adjunct (adverbial) of time, though some more accurate label may exist. It's true that R. Quirk does not consider...

Hello Roro OED says about the etymology of "cost" as follows. a. OF. coster, couster (mod. coûter) = Pr. and Sp. costar, Pg. custar, It. costare:—L. constôre to stand together, stand firm, abide, be settled or fixed, stand at a price, cost, f. con- together + stôre to stand. The...