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The image of an object which is 10 cm from a lens is formed on the same side as the object.
In this sentence, what does the word 'which' refer to, the image or an object?
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Thein Lwin 7291 The image of an object which is 10 cm from a lens is formed on the same side as the object. In this sentence, what does the word 'which' refer to, the image or an object? an object which is 10 cm from a lens (a noun phrase) is syntactically an object of the preposition "of", so the antecedent of "which" is "an object".
- Thein Lwin 7291 The image of an object which is 10 cm from a lens is formed on the same side as the object.
- In this sentence, what does the word 'which' refer to, the image or an object?
- an object which is 10 cm from a lens (a noun phrase) is syntactically an object of the preposition "of", so the antecedent of "which" is "an object".
- "The image" is on the same side as the object (whatever it means) but it doesn't mean that it has to be 10 cm from a lens.
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Thein Lwin 7291The image of an object which is 10 cm from a lens is formed on the same side as the object.
In this sentence, what does the word 'which' refer to, the image or an object?
an object which is 10 cm from a lens (a noun phrase) is syntactically an object of the preposition "of", so the antecedent of "which" is "an object". "T
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