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English Learner 2593 Posted 9 years ago
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'We stayed at a beautiful hole, the name of which I can't remember now.'

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'The building was destroyed in the fire, the cause of which was never established.'

Here, which refers to [the fire]

'We stayed at a beautiful hole, the name of which I can't remember now.'

Here, which refers to [a beautiful hotel]

  

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Yes; note that with supplementary (non-defining) relatives, the antecedent can be a full noun phrase, as it is in your examples ("the fire" and "a beautiful hotel")


Defining relatives have only nouns or nominals as antecedent "The thieves who stole the car ..."; "A key which she found ..."

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