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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Grammar
In the following sentence, what part of speech is "whatever" taking?
Do whatever you want.
Do whatever you want.
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It is a relative pronoun, serving as the direct object of the verb want in the dependent clause.
- It is a relative pronoun, serving as the direct object of the verb want in the dependent clause.
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It is a relative pronoun, serving as the direct object of the verb want in the dependent clause.
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Anonymous In the following sentence, what part of speech is "whatever" taking?Do whatever you want.Huddleston says 'whatever you want' is a fused relative construction that is an NP (noun phrase) and that there are reasons not to consider 'whatever' simply a pronoun. Yet he doesn't give a label for it - at least not in the book I have. He just calls it the
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CalifJimYet he doesn't give a label for it - at least not in the book I have.What book do you have?
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Oops! I should have mentioned that.
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