Questions tagged [relative-clauses]
Relative clauses are clauses starting with the relative pronouns who*, that, which, whose, where, when. They are most often used to define or identify the noun that precedes them.
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What Is the Function of the Participle Clause in 'Time + -ing'?
[1] My time working in the US was eventful, to say the least.'
In Example 1, I have used a participial-gerund clause (or present participle clause, if you prefer) alongside the noun 'time,' and I'm ...
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Preposition and relative clause ‘in which’ [migrated]
As non-native speaker, It is hard to distinguish the collocation of a verb and preposition. In the following sentences, please figure out the grammaticality.
Can you recommend the hotel in which I ...
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When does a relative pronoun become the subject of a relative clause and when does it not?
Previously, I thought that a relative pronoun becomes the subject of a relative clause when the relative clause modifies the subject of the main clause. In other words, it serves a double purpose. For ...
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future perfect or present perfect in a relative clause qualifying a noun contained in a time clause?
In the screenplay Harold and Maude, written by American author Colin Higgins, Harold stages a number of pretended suicides in an attempt to get strong emotional responses from his mother.
At a ...
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Is the antecedent of a relative clause always the nearest noun? [duplicate]
I found this line in a film, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.
What was once known as ...
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The X of which vs. with an X that
Is there is any guideline to decide which of the following structures is preferred in written American English in scientific papers? The sentences below are just some examples.
Example 1:
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How Relative Pronouns Work [closed]
A relative pronoun is called "both a conjunction and a pronoun". There are other definitions, but the horribly superficial ones like "connects two sentences" are enough.
Why doesn'...
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Are which+ noun and whose nouns are acceptable in English free relatives? [closed]
I am curious if the following two sentences are acceptable in English.
a. He read which books she read.
b. I am sure that my dad will pay for whose cars I damage.
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The impediment generates that in relation to which it is an impediment . <-- analysis?
Can someone help me analyze the grammar of the following sentence?
In a paradoxical logic, the impediment generates that in relation to which it is an impediment.
I'm very confused by "that in ...
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“If you don’t know which book you can buy, we can advise you.”
If you don’t know which book you can buy, we can advise you.
In this sentence, is "which book you can buy" a defining relative clause introduced by the subordinator "which" as a ...
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Correct use of 'of which'
So, I happened to be reading a grammar book in which I came across this weird looking sentence.
This is the car of which parts are not available now.
I think it should have been something like this:
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use of "being" in reduced relative clause
what I have been told is that present participles are used in active reduced relative clauses. considering present participle of "be", which is being, I was wondering can we use the same ...
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Why is "what" used in this sentence? [duplicate]
Consider the sentence:
So how can a computer think if it knows nothing of what it means to be a human being.
Initially I thought that because "of" in this sentence basically means "...
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I was trying to describe a recipe to my friend that I'd had a go of
Is this dialectal use:
And I thought I've got a nice kitchen now maybe I should learn to cook. And I'm learning, it's going quite well. I don't always know the right words for things. I couldn't ...
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I need help with independent clauses
I got a bit confused about independent clauses,so I decided to ask ChatGpt, which has given me three different answers for the same sentence I think he is getting too old, suffering from Alzheimer's ...
