By Verbs, Relative pronouns

Of course it disagrees with are because it has nothing to do with it. The subject of makes is the relative pronoun what. According to most dictionaries, Webster's among them, fruit can be used as a collective plural. If are is wrong with it, what plural verb form of to be do you suggest?CB

To which, in which etc.consist of a preposition and a relative pronoun. The preposition is usually determined by a verb, noun or adjective. In informal style the preposition is often placed at the end of the relative clause. Examples:This is the house in which he lives. This is the house you...

I don't like either sentence; the second one is definitely ungrammatical. Being is most commonly used to indicate a reason in clause equivalents if it occupies initial position:Being tired, I went to bed. (= Because I was tired, I went to bed.)Being has other uses. In your example being...

.Which is a relative pronoun; wherein is an adverb. HERE is a guide to identifying the relative pronouns.

Hi, I know that many people use this type of sentence " I team up with a boy doing 5 subjects" (participle) And " I team up with a boy who does 5 subjects"(relative pronoun) Yes. You can also say 'I team up with a boy who is doing 5 subjects. But Can one say? : "I...

Hello.Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs.What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

Hi Anon, I was intrigued by this issue, as I too could see no substantial difference between the examples. I think it comes down to a simple misunderstanding. The Anon said, "The dilemma how to know what and how much to truncate, Mr.M." When we say,"There is Superman, up in the...

You are mistaken. Bangkok is ... has the subject and verb of the main clause. cities is the antecedent of the relative pronoun that. The verb within the relative clause must agree in number with the antecedent cities, not with the subject of the main clause (Bangkok) nor with its subject...

a.Noun. b.Relative pronounc.Articled.Regular adjectivee.Pronominal adjectivef.Regular adverbg.Preposition – single word h.Preposition – group of wordsI.Conjunction – single-word co-ordinatej.Conjunction - subordinatek.Verbal - gerundl.Verbal - infinitivem.Appositiven.Expletiveo.Predicate -...

I'm taking a correspondence course. These are some of the exercises that I need to submit. So please I need help from grammar exerperts thanks. Question 2 : In the following paragraphs, find one example of each of the parts of the sentence listed below. Lable each example clearly. You will...