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Vsuresh Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

one of them/which

Hi
Please help me with this.
There are many problems here. One of them is poverty.
When can we use which in place of them?
  

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Hi If you want to use which* in the place of *them , I suppose the sentence should be rephrased like this : Here, there are many problems of which poverty is one. ( I have a big doubt on the grammatical and structural correctness of the above mentioned sentence. I would just use this sentence : There are many problems here and one of them is poverty.

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  • Hi If you want to use which* in the place of *them , I suppose the sentence should be rephrased like this : Here, there are many problems of which poverty is one.
  • ( I have a big doubt on the grammatical and structural correctness of the above mentioned sentence.
  • I would just use this sentence : There are many problems here and one of them is poverty.
  • )
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Hi
If you want to use which* in the place of *them,
I suppose the sentence should be rephrased like this :

Here, there are many problems of which poverty is one.

( I have a big doubt on the grammatical and structural correctness of the above mentioned sentence. I would just use this sentence : There are many problems here and one of them is poverty. )
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vsureshThere are many problems here. One of them is poverty.When can we use which in place of them?
In a relative construction:

"There are many problems here, one of which is poverty".
"There are many problems here, of which poverty is one".

The relative word "which" refers to "problems" (called its antecedent).

Bill
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Thank you BillJ

Suresh
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