Hi 1. Your second reading is correct. The conjunction and connects the two noun phrases his wife and the warm love of the niece . I'd probably read that as just one prepositional phrase in which his wife and the warm love.. are both

Is the antecedent of 'which' always the noun immediately before 'which'? For example, a copyright notice on the XYZ website The permission does not extend to any materials on the linked websites or any contents on the XYZ

Hi, I want to know which one of these is right & Why? I'm looking forward to hear from you OR I'm looking forward to hearing from you The underlying structure is You look forward to something. That something can be

Neither of the players on the course today have any hope of reaching the final round . No error The correct answer: have Their explanation: The plural verb have incorrectly refers to the singular noun neither . Remember to be careful when

a) The second conditional expresses a present or future tense except when the conditional is embedded within a main clause . In such cases, the tense expressed is that expressed by the verb in the main clause. 1) Is except a preposition

The idiom 'as opposed to' I assume is followed by a noun (object of the preposition to). In the following sentence I copied from this forum, 'there' follows the idiom. Can someone please explain why 'there' can follow

(Some grammarians insist on antecendent nouns; others do not. However, I find it difficult to come up with good examples of "whoever" and "whomever" that include clear antecendent nouns.) Hello Doctor D The pronouns

Thanks for your patience while we were thrashing this out. Let me put one last collection of examples out and see if we have any final comments. (Some grammarians insist on antecendent nouns; others do not. However, I find it difficult to come up

Conventional relative clauses refer back to a head noun outside the relative clause itself What noun do these relative clauses refer to, Bill J? 1. whomever (objective) Jack will hate whomever you love. 2. whoever

I see I need to refresh my technical grammar. It is easy to go astray with the all-purpose "that." However, I am not so sure that the phrases used in example five are not relative pronouns. Are really saying that "which... hates me