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Cho7712 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Relative how

If I want to fuse 'Sunday is the day .' with 'People usually relax in Sunday.' into one sentence,

the results will be,

(a) Sunday is the day which/that people usually relax in.

(b) Sunday is the day when people usually relax.

To my knowledge, in case of (a), 'which/that' function as an objective relative pronoun. The last word 'in' can be placed right in front of 'which'.

The grammar reference book says, in case of (b), 'when' can be replaced with 'that'.

(c) Sunday is the day that people usually relax.

Then I have (a) and (c) both equally correct, so to say, with or without the preposition, the use of 'that' is just to be fine. Do I get this grammar point right?

  

Top answer

We relax on Sunday, not in, so your options become: 1. Sunday is the day on which people usually relax. 2.

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  • We relax on Sunday, not in, so your options become: 1.
  • Sunday is the day on which people usually relax.
  • 2.
  • Sunday is the day which/that people usually relax on.
  • 3.
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We relax on Sunday, not in, so your options become:

1. Sunday is the day on which people usually relax.
2. Sunday is the day which/that people usually relax on.
3. Sunday is the day when people usually relax.
4. Sunday is the day that people usually relax.

(1) and (3) are OK. To my mind, (2) is inferior to (1). You may hear (4) used colloquially, but to my mind i

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