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Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

This is a common structure. Grammarians use different terms to describe what and what follows it in the sentence. To my mind, a comma would make the sentence more comprehensible:What you think boring, your friends may find exciting.We could change the order of the clauses and get:Your friends...

Hi, what is the different between those things? it Pronoun eg That's a nice sweater.I like it. its Possessive adjective. eg That's a nice sweater. I like its colour. which Has various meanings, eg relative pronoun - I bought a sweater which is red. in which Ths is just an expression using...

This gives me strength to face the busy day lies ahead.This is not correct. The relative pronoun that (or which) cannot be omitted when it is the subject of its clause. It has to be "busy day that lies ahead". However, if the relative pronoun subject is followed by a form of the verb to...

How to reduce Noun Clauses: 1. Noun Clauses to Gerund Phrases: When you change noun clauses to gerund phrase, you must first change the verb in the noun clause to its- ing form ; as show in the following . Examples: 1.Full: They admit that they have problems at school. ...

Moreover, if you want to use "used to" in its sense of a repeated past action, you have to provide a relative pronoun:1. Favorite dogs, which used to walk around the village at night, were now called indoors before sunset.MrP

I am studying about relative adverbs now and have a question about it. I learned that 'relative adverbs are where, when and why .' My quesetion is 'Is how also an relative adverb or not?'. If it is, the sentence " I don't know the way how he solved problem." will be all right. Is the sentence...

Hello Latin In most cases 'that' works as a conjunctive or as a relative pronoun. But 'that' can work as a relative adverb in the case it follows 'time' or similar words. When you use 'time that ..' with in/on/at in the that clause, you can take the 'that' as a relative pronoun, and when you use...

Right, I had deduced that as well, I like reading about old nuggets like "pray tell" and "fair teeming" and such, which is why this "what" thing caught my eye. My generation of swedish youths is so used to modern english-american lingo that quaint, old fashioned expressions and colloquial figures...

Simon, The first one is a better expression. It'd be easier to understand when it is rephrased as follows. What is important is patience. = The thing which is important is patience. The meaning is almost exactly the same. The only difference between the two is the respective terms used for...