Timeline for "...in the context * you used them" - do I need more here?
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| Apr 12, 2014 at 16:05 | comment | added | Kit Tona | Thank you John Lawler. Yes, I understand that about the Zero clause, but in the OP's sentence the pronoun is not the subject of the relative clause... at least, I think I understand, it's 2am over here in the Antipodes, lol. I just found this site, it's fabulous. I can see myself missing a lot deadlines grappling with the arcane and the abstruse here. I appreciate your welcome. :-) (are we averse to cheesy emoticons on here? Perhaps I should have lurked before I started posting... o.O ) | |
| Apr 12, 2014 at 15:37 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'd be happier with 'in the way/manner you used them' than with 'in the context/circumstances you used them'. Dropping the 'in' in the latter cases sounds unnatural to my ear. Perhaps it's a UK / US thing. | |
| Apr 12, 2014 at 14:18 | comment | added | John Lawler | When all are correct, it's a speaker option, not a grammar rule; and speakers vary. Wheat "sounds better" to one may not to another. Not using that with nonrestrictive relative clauses, however, is a rule of grammar. Also, note that Zero can't occur with She bought the one which/that had power steering: *She bought the one had power steering, because the relative pronoun is the subject, and tensed clauses may not have zero subjects. That's another grammar rule. But these are minor points. +1 for completeness and accuracy the first time out. | |
| Apr 12, 2014 at 13:11 | vote | accept | Vineet Kaushik | ||
| Apr 12, 2014 at 13:03 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 12, 2014 at 12:46 | history | answered | Kit Tona | CC BY-SA 3.0 |