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What part of speech is 'when'?
What part of speech is 'when' in the following sentence?
An apology is hard to take when the listener knows it is not sincere?
Is 'when' an adverb or a conjunction or an adverb conjunction (if there is such a thing)?
Also, what function is 'to take' in this sentence? Is it the infinitive form of the verb only?
Many thanks
Cosmo
An apology is hard to take when the listener knows it is not sincere?
Is 'when' an adverb or a conjunction or an adverb conjunction (if there is such a thing)?
Also, what function is 'to take' in this sentence? Is it the infinitive form of the verb only?
Many thanks
Cosmo
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An apology is hard to take when the listener knows it is not sincere? Is 'when' an adverb or a conjunction or an adverb conjunction (if there is such a thing)? An apology is hard to take when the listener knows it is not sincere .
- An apology is hard to take when the listener knows it is not sincere?
- Is 'when' an adverb or a conjunction or an adverb conjunction (if there is such a thing)?
- An apology is hard to take when the listener knows it is not sincere .
- Most grammars would analyse it as a subordinating conjunction introducing the underlined finite subordinate clause.
- But for those who take it as a preposition , the underlined expression is a preposition phrase, with the prep "when" as head and a subordinate content clause as complement (thus like because the listener ...
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AnonymousWhat part of speech is 'when' in the following sentence?An apology is hard to take when the listener knows it is not sincere? Is 'when' an adverb or a conjunction or an adverb conjunction (if there is such a thing)?An apology is hard to take when the listener knows it is not sincere.
Most grammars would analyse it as a subor
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