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Nader75 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

in which, of which, to which ...??

I don't know wha tmean these phrases

and how to use them ...

in which, of which, to which
  

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Use them in formal relative clauses. The prepositions retain their usual meanings: This is the bag in which I put my sandwich = This is the bag which/that I put my sandwich in . The man of which we speak is sitting right over there = The man whom/that we speak of is sitting right over there.

— Mister Micawber

  • Use them in formal relative clauses.
  • The prepositions retain their usual meanings: This is the bag in which I put my sandwich = This is the bag which/that I put my sandwich in .
  • The man of which we speak is sitting right over there = The man whom/that we speak of is sitting right over there.
  • I shall return the money to the person to which it belongs = I shall return the money to the person ( which/that ) it belongs to .
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Use them in formal relative clauses. The prepositions retain their usual meanings:

This is the bag in which I put my sandwich = This is the bag which/that I put my sandwich in.
The man of which we speak is sitting right over there = The man whom/that we speak of is sitting right over there.
I shall return the money to the person to
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Mister MicawberUse them in formal relative clauses. The prepositions retain their usual meanings:

This is the bag in which I put my sandwich = This is the bag which/that I put my sandwich in.
The man of which we speak is sitting right over there = The man whom/that we speak of is sitting right over there.
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Shouldn't which in the above sentences be replaced by whom?

Evidently not, since that is what came naturally to me. Whom is fine, of course, but I suppose that it is in the process of being supported or supplanted by which, just as it already is by that:

That's the man that/which/who/whom I was telling you about
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Mister Micawber
Shouldn't which in the above sentences be replaced by whom?

Evidently not, since that is what came naturally to me. Whom is fine, of course, but I suppose that it is in the process of being supported or supplanted by which, just as it already is by that:

That's the man that/which
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The relative pronoun who (formal) or that(informal) is used as a relative conjunction word in a relative clause to refer to (a) living thing(s), but never which.
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Mister Micawber
Shouldn't which in the above sentences be replaced by whom?

Evidently not, since that is what came naturally to me. Whom is fine, of course, but I suppose that it is in the process of being supported or supplanted by which, just as it already is by that:

That's the man that/which
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I guess you are right-- I am just a rogue native speaker or a throwback. Most of the 200,000+ hits for 'the man which' on Ms Google are for referents other than man, or are in different constructions. There are a few from the old days, however:

"The man which went round and round, I learned afterwards, was proven guilty of stealing hosses
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Thank U, the sentence of which you have given the example is most important for me. Is this sentence is correct? [:^)]
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the structure for which you have given an example sentence...
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Mister Micawberthe structure for which you have given an example sentence...

Hi, Mister Micawber. What should we understand from what you said in this thread?

That's the man which I was telling you about.

Is which correct here?
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