By Relative pronouns, Direct objects

Hello.Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs.What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

.Leaving out 'which is' any time is dangerous, because it is more often used for non-restrictive clauses than restrictive clauses, and non-restrictive clauses to not permit zero-that/whichIn restrictive clauses, the relative pronouns that and which (+ be) can be omitted if no confusion in...

Anonymous wrote:1. The news that he won surprised us all. (Noun clause?)2. The news which we received last month was unbelievable.3. It is a fact that the earth is round.4. The fact that the earth is round is weel well-known. Hi Sothy Sin, #1 and #2 relative pronoun clauses are of adjectival...

In the relative clause it's actually the relative pronoun that that you're interested in, right? all that I to do: that is the direct object of do, in the most straight forward reading. (that is assumed if omitted, of course.) But there is ambiguity, and that could also be the direct...

Sorry, I have to eat humble pie. Tell me when you will arrive. when you will arrive is a nominal relative clause acting as the direct object of the verb: tell. A relative pronoun can be replaced by an adjunct form for time: when. Its use along with its antencedent some find...

That particular use of "which" (as a substitute for "that"), together with the preposing of the direct object ("which promise", i.e., "that promise"), is, I think, a literary device, and a fairly old one at that. I don't think this use of "which" would occur in a modern text, and...

The analyses of the first and second sentences are correct, but there is a problem with last sentence. "Tom and Mary sat at the back of the room with the self-conscious air of men who suspect that they should be taking part in the nearby drama but who wonder which rule they should play." "who...

Try this, Karol: 1) The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the prepositional object, but the particle of a phrasal verb can generally precede or follow the direct object. 2) When the object is a personal pronoun, the pronoun follows the particle of a prepositional verb but precedes...

I would analyse it this way: - "He swallowed a lot of new questions" - main clause; he = subject, swallowed = predicate, a lot of new questions = direct object - "which had just occured to him" - subordinate clause, functioning as an object complement; internal analysis: which = relative...

He swallowed a lot of new questions which had just occured to him, and looked instead at the thousands of narrow boxes piled neatly right to the ceiling. He | swallowed ... and looked (instead) subject | verbs joined by a conjunction (adverb) swallowed | a lot of new questions verb | complement...