Does "which" act as a subordinating conjunction in these sentences?
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Does "which" act as a subordinating conjunction in these sentences:
1) Apples, which were consumed at an average of 225 grams per person per week, were by far the most popular of all foods.
2) The consumption of grapes also declined, which also came as a surprise.
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Shay Singh Does "which" act as a subordinating conjunction in these sentences: Yes. Subordinating conjunctions include complementizers, relativizers, and adverbializers. "which" is a relativizer .
- Shay Singh Does "which" act as a subordinating conjunction in these sentences: Yes.
- Subordinating conjunctions include complementizers, relativizers, and adverbializers.
- "which" is a relativizer .
- See below.
- CJ
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Shay SinghDoes "which" act as a subordinating conjunction in these sentences:
Yes.
Subordinating conjunctions include complementizers, relativizers, and adverbializers. "which" is a relativizer. See below.
CJ
0Sorry! I misread something online regarding subordinating conjunctions.
'which' is a relative pronoun, not a conjunction, according to the SIL glossary of linguistic terms.
CJ
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