After talking it out with some fellow teachers and looking some terms up...we're still a little unsure about our conclusions. Any clarifications would be greatly appreciated! "I'm going to talk about Ichiro Suzuki." (Starting out

Do relative pronouns follow the nearest antecedent ??? You are speaking as if there were several antecedents, and one of them is nearest the relative pronoun, where in fact there is always only one. You are confusing "noun" with

I find them all acceptable. I usually use "cases where" myself. I don't like "cases when" very much. Some people may find it wrong. "cases in which" is too formal for everyday conversation. They are all defining. CJ

Is there a rule that allows an understood "that is" or "that are" Yes. It's even got a name: Whiz Deletion. The restrictive relative pronouns who, which or that followed by a form of be ( is, are , etc.) can be deleted.

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Hi, Anonymous Your sentence has two parts: "Is this the school... ?" and "you visited". "you visited" is a relative clause or subsentence. It identifies which school you are talking about. In order to connect the

I think your understanding is correct. As you know, a clause has a subject and a verb. In a relative clause, a relative pronoun often serves as the subject of the clause, and may refer back to some noun earlier in the sentence, which the clause

I'd say no. In this case it sounds like casual conversation with two predicates: My father gave me a present made me happy. My father gave me a present - made me happy. I don't think we'd assume the missing relative pronoun ( that /

Can't get my head around these two: 1) I was walking in the forest, where is near my house, when I...etc,etc. It's 'where' as a relative pronoun that confuses me...now I know it should be 'which', but why can't it be

I'm not sure how to answer your question as it is confused by this=20 difference in meaning. =20 David =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D WTF language are you speaking?