Rahul: (l) Yes, most grammarians say that the antecedent of "which" is "The police found the murder weapon"; however, a few don't know whether it is accurate to call "which made the prosecutor's job easier" an

Frankly, I cannot work through all your analysis, but 1a and 1b are good, 2a is of course bad, and 2b is still find grammatically, as 'them' is the object of a preposition. Would you prefer that it read ' their idiomatic use and right

In your original example about the suppliers, "this" (or, if you used it, "that") are demonstrative pronouns. They substitute for a noun or a noun phrase that has been specifically mentioned or is implied by context, or they

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 have a question. " a bit of animal husbandry that is not unheard of in southern climates if you leave your dog in a parked car and don't want to return to find him cooked." I thought "that" was a relative pronoun in

I remember thinking a couple of times that your views on appositives were a bit skewed. I wanted to help, but hadn't thought about the subject for so long I was a little lost. I happened across that stray unanswered post and couldn't

I don't think so. "as a unit" is a prepositional phrase, and answers the question "how"? It is adverbial, as is "syntactically", modifying "define". It ( subject) is (main verb) predicate: useful

I meant does a complementizer always begin a noun clause, not a noun phrase ?? Ah! Well, that's a different question, of course. Yes and no. Sometimes, as I think you know, the complementizer is omitted, so the theorists say it's the

Thank you. Mistakes in my questions: Yes I meant it as the subject, yes I meant present participle , and finally, I meant does a complementizer always begin a noun clause, not a noun phrase ?? __ I understand what a complementiser is now. So, a

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 =