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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Relative clauses

Hi everyone.

In a textbook, I found the following:

* The hotel has a swimming pool. It is very big. (Combine with a relative clause)

The answer is: The hotel has a swimming pool that is very big.

Question 1: Why is there one answer? why can't we say it like this:

"The hotel that is big has a swimming pool ."?

Question 2: Is it true that the clause is defining(restrictive) because there is an indefinite article before the noun' a swimming pool'?

Or can we say that the pronoun "it" should refer to the part " the pool" not to the whole" the hotel"?

  

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Broadly speaking, the pronoun it refers to the last thing mentioned. l Clive

  • Broadly speaking, the pronoun it refers to the last thing mentioned.
  • l Clive
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Broadly speaking, the pronoun it refers to the last thing mentioned. What was the last thing mentioned?l

Clive

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