Timeline for Relative clause and prepositional phrase
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jan 18, 2019 at 14:31 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @CanadianYankee: Perhaps I'm becoming "Americanised" thanks to the US Silicon Valley dominance of the Internet (as perhaps are you, given your online handle here! :) | |
| Jan 18, 2019 at 1:35 | vote | accept | Fionna | ||
| Jan 17, 2019 at 21:51 | comment | added | Canadian Yankee | @FumbleFingers - If you are an AmE speaker, then the general rule is to use that to begin restrictive clauses (as in this example) and which, set off by a comma, for non-restrictive clauses. BrE speakers are more likely to use which for both types of clauses (though the comma rule still holds). | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 20:07 | answer | added | Gary Botnovcan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 18:41 | comment | added | TimR | He faced the same difficulty at the airport which we had faced in finding the direction to the gate. The phrase at the airport there refers to where his difficulty was encountered. Does labeling it adverbial or adjectival change your understanding of the meaning in any way? He faced the same difficulty we faced at the airport in finding the direction to the gate. Perhaps he was not at the airport? Maybe he was down at the docks in Baltimore, and the difficulty was that he did not speak English, which was your difficulty as well, when you were at the airport. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 18:38 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I can't say exactly why, but I don't much like which there. Either nothing at all (my preference), or that would sound more natural. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 17:37 | comment | added | Tashus | Hi Fionna. Welcome to ELL. You have done a really good job of explaining your reasoning, but it might be a good idea to narrow this down to one specific question. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 17:11 | history | asked | Fionna | CC BY-SA 4.0 |