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Here are some examples The main point is to explain the correct answerThe sentences are little-bit childisch ;they are some modified sentences. I am afraid that my explanations seems to be a little childisch, too. So please help me how to turn it into the right explanation. Mary was real angry...

Hi N2GI'll butt in if I may. 1. He'd only left her a note on the bedside table of which she had not understood the content. There is a noun in the relative clause and that explains of in this case. I would reword the sentence: He'd only left her a note the content of which she had...

Grammarian-bot wrote:But you can't use "like" as a conjunction where it means as if. My question here is to know whether a double genetive is appropriate here.GB like is a prep in the first sentence People sometimes object to the “double genitive” construction, as in a friend of my father’s or...

I guess you don't get out much, Anon. Here is a sampling of respectable online sources. Doing a bit of Google research yourself will turn up many, many more.The American Heritage Dictionary: Grammarians have sometimes objected to the so-called double genitive construction, as in a friend of my...

In this case, no difference, Clarence (with the improbable use, I suppose, where the second noun is omitted: 'Is he a friend of your friend? No, he's a friend of my wife's .') Here's American Heritage's comment: 'Usage Note: Grammarians have sometimes objected to the so-called double genitive...

Can someone just clarify what I believe to be true: 'Who' is the nominative form, while 'Whom' is the form in all other cases (accusative, dative, genitive (though 'whose' can also be used for genitive), etc.) - is this correct?

"It won't be he who gets fired" is correct. In English we have only three cases: nominative, objective, and genitive (possessive). All subjects and subject complements are in the nominative case and all objects are in the objective case. (The genetive case doesn't enter into this...

Paco, I too was taught the "one's doing" formulation in the sixties and have never stopped using it, and neither have any of my friends and family whom I consider careful speakers of English. I have also found it to be universally followed in American formal writing (anything from newspapers to...

What are the rules for using "what" in the way I did in this thread title? I first heard it in the TV cartoon series "The Tick", which has a bad guy called "The Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight". I've been told that the standard pronouns are who, whom, which and that: "Who" is used for...