1. No, I think an article is missing and giving is a participle that is used instead of a relative pronoun and a finite verb : He complained that the part the act which/that gives police the right... The used to be very common with police in

There is no denying the fact that he is a faithful husband. I don't think you mean "parts of speech." I was always taught there are only eight of those. I don't know much about "that." "That he is a faithful

I recently used the following question on a quiz: A gentleman ________ I had never seen before smiled at me. The students were to put the relative pronoun in the first blank and then write whether it was a defining or non-defining relative

I went to the cinema and I liked the film very much - I went to the cinema and I liked very much the film Why can´t I say the second one? The word order of the second sentence would be possible in many languages that have special cases for

For my brother to feel, that he does not know the right term, must seem a real impediment. Hi frankie, thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums. Nix the comma after "feel." The feeling is bad. If this were your sentence, the

Thanks so much, YL and CJ. It is really great to know! (I didn't know that) When you have a short intervening clause like it alleges, they say, he claimed, we thought , etc., the relative pronoun ( who, which, that ) can be omitted. You mean

There are a series of conflicts that run throughout this story, the most important being Trujillo’s abuse of his dictatorship over the country; an external conflict between Trujillo and society. There are a series of conflicts =main clause

Hi, I had some help with fused relative pronouns from CJ, and I now have an alright understanding of them; I have, also, read the article on Wikipedia. Question When what is a pronoun, is it always a fused relative pronoun? Same question for other

I'm so cross with myself. I can't even cite material correctly. Join the club! Have you finally got it right? Here is the sentence! It was on his way back past them, carrying a large burger, that he heard what they were saying. He =

Secondly, does a noun phrase always have a complementizer at the start of it (head)? No. According to the description in Wiki, complementizers are the syntactic head of a full clause. A noun phrase is not a full clause. Example: "the grand