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Nora, of all the candidates who are running, is the best. Is "of all the candidates who are running" an appositive or some sort of strange relative/adjective clause. I think that it is not an adjective clause, because a relative pronoun is not found at the beginning of the phrase. Any...

Hi Pucca Yes, you can omit the relative pronoun in a restrictive clause when the relative pronoun is not the subject of the restrictive clause. " The yogurt (that) I bought yesterday was already past its use-by date. "

The choice between that and who does not change the meaning. In either case there is ambiguity between whether the relative pronoun ( that or who ) refers back to woman or candidates . My first impulse is to take it as woman . In practical terms, however, it doesn't make any difference....

There is also an excellent discussion on the usage of Who and Whom provided by American Heritage Dictionary: Usage Note: The traditional rules that determine the use of who and whom are relatively simple: who is used for a grammatical subject, where a nominative pronoun such as I or he...

Hello. What kind of other antecedents are used with when as relative pronoun, apart from the day, the month, the year, the moment, the date, the time ?

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the words 1 Than 2 that 1 Than is normally used to...