Cuto should be capitalized if it's the name of your cat. I think your explanation about who and which are applicable to relative pronouns in many contexts. In your dialog who is an interrogative pronoun, and which would be wrong. Who is fine.

In my terminology what is a relative pronoun which is inclusive of the antecedent in your sentence. A leading figure in the Scottish enlightenment, Adam Smith's two major books are to democratic capitalism what Marx's Das Kapital is to

Words --- yes! I was focused upon whether 'are' could be used for the relative pronoun 'what.' It is, isn't it, when 'what' means more than one entity? Hiro

What am I missing here? You are missing the rule that governs these cases! The function of the antecedent in the main clause is irrelevant. Choose the case of the relative pronoun ( who / whom ) on the basis of its function in the subordinate

Hello, How can we combine two sentences with a relative pronoun clause? Await him We don't know who he is Something like " Await him who we don't know who he is"? Thanks for help.

It was the fitting into Confucian patterns of conduct and of family and community life rather than blood kinship or ancestry which labeled one as civilized and as Chinese. The sentence is correct and your analysis is right. It is a preparatory

Hi everyone, In the following sentences below, what do you think the subject of the last sentence is? Just "It" or the words "which labeled one as civilized and as Chinese"? I'm confused whether the

Your two sentences may mean the same. One expert says that after "same," you may use "as" or "that" as a relative pronoun: He has the SAME job THAT/AS he had last year. Therefore, your second sentence should be :

Can I say: " The Countries who ..." or must I say "The Countries that ..." ? According to Standard British Grammar, "who" can be used only with persons - but can't "Country" be a group of persons? Emy ^_^

Hi. Thank you again. Do you think the placement of commas for these is correct? I think what I am trying to ask is if some words or phrases or clauses (possible?) exist and if those can leave a possibility of readers of the sentence with