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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Could you tell me what the grammatical rule here?
"Soon we'd climb up into the howling wind, to find our way through whatever nightmares were waiting there."
Why did he use "were"? Can you tell me why "were is used here? It sounds like a question rather than an answer. Were it up to me I would have changed it as
"Soon we'd climb up into the howling wind, to find our way through whatever nightmares waiting there."
Why did he use "were"? Can you tell me why "were is used here? It sounds like a question rather than an answer. Were it up to me I would have changed it as
"Soon we'd climb up into the howling wind, to find our way through whatever nightmares waiting there."
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Anonymous Why did he use "were"? Because the beginning of the sentence is in the past tense: we would climb (we used to climb). " That's ungrammatical.
- Anonymous Why did he use "were"?
- Because the beginning of the sentence is in the past tense: we would climb (we used to climb).
- " That's ungrammatical.
- You cannot say I waiting, you waiting, nightmares waiting.
- CB
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AnonymousWhy did he use "were"?Because the beginning of the sentence is in the past tense: we would climb (we used to climb).
Anonymous"Soon we'd climb up into the howling wind, to find our way through whatever nightmares waiting there."That's ungrammatical. You cannot say I waiting, you waiting, nightmares waiti
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Anonymouswhatever nightmares were waiting there."It is a noun clause with the verb in past progressive tense. It is the object of the preposition "through."
It can be converted to a question if you change the relative pronoun to an interrogative pronoun.
What nightmares were waiting there?
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AlpheccaStars if you change the relative pronoun to an interrogative pronoun.Can you tell me what you mean by this? I'm a stranger to the terminology of English.
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Interrogative pronoun - a pronoun that introduces a question. i.e. Who? What?
relative pronoun - a pronoun that introduces a clause that modifies a noun.
Who (interrogative) is the man who (relative) won the prize?
relative pronoun - a pronoun that introduces a clause that modifies a noun.
Who (interrogative) is the man who (relative) won the prize?
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