The use of relative pronouns
Is there any special rules to connect two sentences by relative pronouns? I mean how I can recognize which sentence should be used as adjective clause?
The man plays golf.
He lives at no.10
How about this one?
The cat lives near us.
It was drinking milk.
Top answer
You can only go by the sense of it. Take the first pair. Of course, you could say that the man who plays golf lives at no.
- You can only go by the sense of it.
- Take the first pair.
- Of course, you could say that the man who plays golf lives at no.
- 10, but that is less likely than saying the man who lives at no.
- 10 plays golf.
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You can only go by the sense of it. Take the first pair. Of course, you could say that the man who plays golf lives at no. 10, but that is less likely than saying the man who lives at no. 10 plays golf. The second pair is not as clear-cut. Both versions are unlikely, but it seems more likely you would be trying to tell someone which cat lives near you by its behavior than identifying which cat
0We do not often use relative clauses to modify personal pronouns. For example, "He who plays golf ...", while possible, has a special stylistic feel to it, as if it is the start of a maxim or something like that. It would not be used to talk about a specific person. In cases like this where you have a choice between modifying a personal pronoun and modifying a noun, you will be expected to mod
0The man who plays golf lives at no. 10.
This implies that there is one man (in the world) who plays golf. And that unique and auspicious person lives at house #10.
The man who lives at no. 10. plays golf.
This means that there is one man who lives at house #10. And he is a golfer.
Note the difference when the continuous tense is used:
The man who is
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