What i I am trying to ask is that whether Which which is correct in the first sentence since the noun Weapon weapon is creating ambiguity , or not?? According to most grammarians today, that use of which is correct. I do remember reading

Your examples are the pattern of so called Relative Clause. Sorry. No. Verbs of telling take noun clauses as objects. that is a complementizer, not a relative pronoun, and the that -clause is a complement of the verb, not an adjectival

1)Does the phrase need these words in bold to be grammatical, or do you think the group of words in the exemplary sentence are fine as a phrase; that is, they don't need their subjects and/or verbs? Is there rule for when they don't need

AH! Now I see what you mean. You are saying in #1 a way of living is the antecedent of the relative pronoun 'that' and it doesn't make sense. I agree that it wouldn't make sense IF the antecendent were 'a way of living'.

Usually we use 'who' to refer to persons, however, 'that' is also acceptable. I really like the www.dictionary.com for its explanations. Here is a clip from "that": —Usage note 4 . When that introduces a relative

Use of Participle Clauses If a clause is shortened using a participle construction, the clause is called participle clause. Example: Watching TV , she forgot everything around her. In English, participle clauses are mainly used in writing in order

Avangi: Hey, i know that "a boy" shouldn't use "do" but in this context "a boy" is not a subject and shouldn't use does, however if does is used in the context (context I'm talking about) " I team up

So it's not local; it's spread across the entire breadth of the continent. What's interesting about it is that it's a fused relative construction with human denotation, headed by the relative pronoun lexeme who . And that is a possibility

Tanit wrote: Hi, good question! I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence: He is one that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that

Zj.frank wrote: Dear all: He is one of the few that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. Do the two "that"s denote different things? Shall we say that the first "that"