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Trung Nguyen 808 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
'of which/whom' or 'of them'?
Here is a question in my TOEIC book:
'The Earthwatch researchers began with informal group discussions with the craftsmen, all of ___ are women, asking them to describe criteria that were important to them in defining quality of life. A. what, B. who, C. whom and D. them
The answer is C. whom. I understand this sentence as we need 'whom' as a relative pronoun to join the clauses.
However in the following sentence:
'I know that we have quite a few photographs on file, but please have one of your staff go over them, as I'm sure not all of ___ are in usable condition. A. what, B. their, C. which and D. them
The answer is D. them. Can somebody explain it to me? Why can't I use 'whom' here? Thank you very much.
'The Earthwatch researchers began with informal group discussions with the craftsmen, all of ___ are women, asking them to describe criteria that were important to them in defining quality of life. A. what, B. who, C. whom and D. them
The answer is C. whom. I understand this sentence as we need 'whom' as a relative pronoun to join the clauses.
However in the following sentence:
'I know that we have quite a few photographs on file, but please have one of your staff go over them, as I'm sure not all of ___ are in usable condition. A. what, B. their, C. which and D. them
The answer is D. them. Can somebody explain it to me? Why can't I use 'whom' here? Thank you very much.
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Trung Nguyen 808 . Can somebody explain it to me? In the first, 'all of whom' heads a relative clause; in the second, '(that) all of them' heads a predicate complement clause.
- Trung Nguyen 808 .
- Can somebody explain it to me?
- In the first, 'all of whom' heads a relative clause; in the second, '(that) all of them' heads a predicate complement clause.
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Trung Nguyen 808. Can somebody explain it to me?In the first, 'all of whom' heads a relative clause; in the second, '(that) all of them' heads a predicate complement clause.
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