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Hi TakaIn your sentences, I think the use of the simple pronouns 'he' and 'she' plays a role, too. Perhaps you could say that they're often just "not important enough" to qualify for inversion.For example, I have no problem with Hoa Thai's sample sentences:“Here...

Grammar Geek wrote: We must obey laws. We consider that to be our duty. We must obey laws. We consider that that is our duty. We must obey laws. We consider that it is our duty to do so. Thanks, GG and Marius. Now I seem to find out where the key problem is. Why can't the pronoun "that,"...

Cool Breeze wrote: Goodman wrote: There is a new supermarket in my neighborhood which/ that is 2 block away from my apartment. Hi allBecause there are so few relative pronouns in English - and I don't want my neighborhood to be 2 blocks away from my apartment - in Helsinki English I'd...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: "I don't understand the function of the underlined that in this sentence and what 'that' refers to? Can you give examples to explain this?" This is the question, right? Inchoateknowledge wrote: Note from these examples, that in statements when the preposition is...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: I recommend that we settle this problem (simple sentence, one clause) the red part is a nominal clause, and acts as the object of the verb. 'that' has no reference, but plays an important role grammatically: nominal conjunction that links the verb to its object...

First of all, the information within the sample sentence is not relevant to the question being asked. It's just a sentence taken out of some grammar book so it mentions grammatical things like prepositions. The sentence could have been something completely different, and yet the question...

CalifJim wrote:A word used to introduce a clause complement of a verb is called a complementizer. Complements are underlined below.I said the word.I said that Jane would be late today.CJ Thanks for the explantion, CJ, but my confusion is still existent in that the first question of this thread...

Well thats how I interpret the problem. 1. In this sentence, the problem is with the pronoun that is used for the calendar stick. They have used them which actually points to North Americans ratehr than the stick. Option A, B and C has this same problem and option D says that the evidence was...

One of the English words that troubles me the most is the little fellow "AS". Below is a sample paragraph quoted from an article: "The giants had been expelled from the mountain; but they had only withdrawn to the neighboring cities of Philistia (Joshua 11:22). Thence they had, as must be...

That or which. Where is an adverb, but in the sample sentence, the subordinate clause is an adjective modifier of beach, so the pronoun is required.