By Relative pronouns, Vocabulary

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,...

Richard Side and Guy Wellman in Grammar and Vocabulary for CAE and CPE. There is a task which requires you to use one of the relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, that, which. They marked 'that' as the only alternative to fill the gap in the sentence in question. Inchoate

(A knock on the door) Mr. Ko: Who is it? (No answers. Mr. Ko opens the door and finds no one at the door, so he closes it. A little later, he hears another knock on the door.) Mr. Ko: Who is it? (Again, he opens the door and finds no one out there. A minute later he hears yet another...