By Relative pronouns, Negatives

Clive wrote:My older Concise Oxford Dictionary lists 'but' as a 'negative relative pronoun'. I think the relevant example from its long list is 'I don't doubt but that she loves you'. However, it's pretty odd and unusual. If I were you, I wouldn't concern myself with 'but' as a pronoun. Did...

Hi, In fact, if you look in a good dictionary you will see that the word but has six jobs to do: verb, noun, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjuction! http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts-of-speech_3.htm I cannot find any examples of but used as a verb or a pronoun in the online...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze wrote:Fortunately English is structurally so simple... ?Hi ForbesIn the days of Old English the grammar of the language was more complicated than it is today: nouns had three genders, and there were even strong masculines as there are in modern German, 's' wasn't the...

1-- yes, what is required. The only regularly omitted relative pronoun is that. 2-- The sentence is fine. As you have written it, I see only one negative particle: not. Lest means in case, for fear that.

Q1: Many students review so that they may not gorget __a__ they learned. What do you think about the above sentence. Do I have to put what in the blank _a ? Is it omittable or not? Q2: You should not touch him lest you should be hit. Is the above sentence wrong? Somebody says...

This is very interesting. So since "what" in this case substitutes other, longer pronouns ("that which"), it's seen like an easy way out of building a sentence? Like the italian-american double negatives ("I ain't seen nothing")? Could you say this "what" is rustic?

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...