'We await we know not who' Sorry my English is not that good, so I feel hard to explain. I think it should be in the form of "We await + noun form of someone" "we know not who" is not in that form.

The fact that Jim smokes... The pipe that Jim smokes... The first is an example of a content clause or an appositive clause. It is not a relative clause. These structures consist of a noun like fact or belief followed by a clause introduced by

Perhaps it works better with what you might term personal characteristics? That rings true. You typically need an adjectival construction with the noun, not just the bare noun. And the adjectival construction is almost always the crux of the

when the modified noun is the object of the modifying clause . The function of the modified noun within the main clause is not relevant. Modifying clause: we watched ( the movie ) last Friday . the movie is the object of the modifying clause

THAT or WHOM can be dropped when the modified noun is the object of the modifying clause. Example: The movie THAT we watched last friday was scary The movie we watched last friday was scary Here the modifying clause is WE WATCHED LAST FRIDAY.

The men with whom were having discussion did not seem very friendly. In the sentence above, why does the adjective clause (whom were having discussion) is introduced by a preposition with ... isn't it an clause is directly after a noun it

so you can have two pronouns back to back? Well, you could say "... writing about the man whom I admire", where "man" is a noun and "whom" is a relative pronoun, and I don't see any fundamental difference

In the sentence, " Most of us are writing about someone whom we admire." Can you please help me identify the nouns, pronouns, and adjectives? I get: Most-pronoun us-pronoun someone-adjective whom-pronoun

I'd say it's just an adjective answering "which one," where "these"and "those" would answer "which ones." So you could call it a demonstrative adjective. "This" and "that" can

I'm fine with hyphens. I'm fine with compound nouns and adjectives. I'm fine with multiple adjectives modifying the same noun. I'm fine with adverbs modifying other adverbs, per definition. In attempting to answer LiJ's