By Relative pronouns, Dates

Nora, of all the candidates who are running, is the best. Is "of all the candidates who are running" an appositive or some sort of strange relative/adjective clause. I think that it is not an adjective clause, because a relative pronoun is not found at the beginning of the phrase. Any help...

Hi PuccaYes, you can omit the relative pronoun in a restrictive clause when the relative pronoun is not the subject of the restrictive clause."The yogurt (that) I bought yesterday was already past its use-by date."

The choice between that and who does not change the meaning. In either case there is ambiguity between whether the relative pronoun (that or who) refers back to woman or candidates. My first impulse is to take it as woman. In practical terms, however, it doesn't make any difference. The...

There is also an excellent discussion on the usage of Who and Whom provided by American Heritage Dictionary: Usage Note: The traditional rules that determine the use of who and whom are relatively simple: who is used for a grammatical subject, where a nominative pronoun such as I or he would be...

Hello. What kind of other antecedents are used with when as relative pronoun, apart from the day, the month, the year, the moment, the date, the time?

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the words 1 Than 2 that 1 Than is normally used to...