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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
Which
Hi.
"Need and want are both four-letter words, and you have to decide which is which." [From The Daily Herald.]
The clause which is which, the object of the verb decide has the same subject and complement, i.e. which. I wonder whether the word, which has different grammatical meaning in the clause, has the same lexical meaning (or may be not).
Thank you.
"Need and want are both four-letter words, and you have to decide which is which." [From The Daily Herald.]
The clause which is which, the object of the verb decide has the same subject and complement, i.e. which. I wonder whether the word, which has different grammatical meaning in the clause, has the same lexical meaning (or may be not).
Thank you.
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- ' But perhaps we should just consider the phrase an idiom.
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AnonymousI wonder whether the word, which has different grammatical meaning in the clause, has the same lexical meaning (or may be not)I extrapolate it as: '...and you have to decide which [word] is [the word] which [is appropriate/etc.].' But perhaps we should just consider the phrase an idiom. Here is some information that does not address the question y
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