By Sample, Relative pronouns

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...

You certainly cannot omit the 'who' in your sample, Jeff: 'There is an old man who wants to see you' needs its 'who'. Object relatives can usually be dropped: 'There is an old man (who/m) I wish to see'. In continuous forms, the relative + 'be' can be omitted: 'There is an old man (who is)...