Timeline for Can "which" indicate a noun which is not the head of noun phrase?
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| Aug 6, 2013 at 17:24 | history | edited | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2013 at 17:21 | comment | added | avpaderno | @Listenever The comma before which is normally used because which introduces a nonrestrictive clause. The NOAD says: "A nonrestrictive clause is set off within commas, and which, who, or whom, not that, is the relative pronoun to use as the subject or object of the verb of the clause." | |
| Aug 6, 2013 at 13:20 | vote | accept | Listenever | ||
| Aug 6, 2013 at 13:20 | comment | added | Listenever | @stoneyB, I suspect when the head of NP and which don't match, they put comma. For when there isn't it, they would think which is naturally refer to the head. Is this not proper idea? | |
| Aug 6, 2013 at 10:49 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | +1 The second part takes this answer to a higher level of usefulness. | |
| Aug 6, 2013 at 10:46 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2013 at 10:32 | history | edited | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2013 at 10:07 | history | answered | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |