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SeekerOfPeace Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

A question about whose and relative clauses

0Would I be correct to say that relative clauses:02br
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00ü00 00modify a noun or a pronoun02br
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00ü00 00Are either defining or non-defining02br
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00In the following sentence:02br
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00“She gave me one of the flowers which she was holding.”02br
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00The relative pronoun “which” could be omitted because flowers is the object of the relative clause.02br
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00In the following sentence: 02br
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00“The book comes with a CD ROM which includes additional exercises. 02br
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00Which cannot be omitted because CD ROM is the subject of the relative clause.02br
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00The two previous sentences are both relative defining clauses. 02br
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00In the following sentence:02br
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00“Whichever party wins the election, income tax is likely to rise in the near future.”02br
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00The reason why “whoever” wouldn’t be acceptable, grammatically speaking, is because one out of a limited number of parties will win, thus the use of whichever.02br
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00In the following sentence:02br
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00“He climbed up 00, from whose peak he could see three countries.”02br
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00I don’t understand why the answer is “from whose”02br
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00According to my book, whose is used to:02br
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00When we talk about something belonging or associated with a person, animal or plant.02br
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00Not the sentence above, 00 is neither a person, an animal or a plant, it’s a mountain. Why is “whose” the correct answer??0-
  

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0 If you look at Meriam-Webster Online Dictionary, it defines "whose" as "of or relating to whom or which especially as possessor or possessors". 0-

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  • 0 If you look at Meriam-Webster Online Dictionary, it defines "whose" as "of or relating to whom or which especially as possessor or possessors".
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0 If you look at Meriam-Webster Online Dictionary, it defines "whose" as "of or relating to whom or which especially as possessor or possessors". Since there's only one possessive relative pronoun, it should be used.0-
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01cite10SeekerOfPeace12cite10Would I be correct to say that relative clauses:12br
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10ü 00modify a noun or a pronoun 01font00Correct, but they can also modify a clause: He didn't say anything, which was a surprise.02font02b
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