How about the sentence " The probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5 " ? Is this a case of "content clause in apposition" ? Yes. There's nothing missing syntactically in An unbiased coin will

There is one thing I would like to mention quickly, though. Some of your last post seems to be trying to compare apple with oranges. He told me something that happened yesterday. That happened yesterday he told me. (Possible, but that is a

That is a conjunction in the second sentence, not a relative pronoun! I agree. More specifically I'd call it a complementizer. It makes the clause we can't afford it subordinate. In any case, that has no antecedent in the preceding text

I remember the day that he came. We aren’t going for the simple reason that we can’t afford it. Is 'that' used as an adverb in the above sentences ? In the first sentence that is indeed adverbial in character, which is obvious if we

I remember the day that he came. We aren’t going for the simple reason that we can’t afford it. Why do you think "that" might be an adverb in those two sentences, Debpriya De? The word "that" is very often used as a relative

Dear friend, you'd better specify your question, as listing every possible meaning of 'what' will be of little help. Here are some of the most common meanings: 1. Interrogative pronoun - asking for information specifying something:

"Adverbs" is Plural, So, we should use THOSE rather than THAT right? No. The relative pronoun is in play here, and your choices are that and which , both of which are correct. As I tried to explain earlier, those is one of four

Dear, teachers. I've learned a clause that follows a relative adverb takes a complete sentence like this. "that's where my queen lives" and, I thought the relative adverb "where' is omitted in the following

Hello, I have a few quick questions. First, c an someone please help me understand why the following answers to an online adjective and adverb quiz are incorrect?: Question #: 1: It is very easy. Here, very is an adjective. User's

It seems to have aspects of several different parts of speech, doesn't it? It's listed at www.m-w.com as adverb, conjunction, pronoun, and preposition! I'm leaning toward conjunction or pronoun. It may be thought of as a conjunction