He asked me. [Yes, it is a complete sentence and grammatically
correct.]
Combined? - Either is correct, depending on the context. If it's an
ongoing concern, #1 is fine. If Judy's going to school is in the past,
#2 is correct.
Lisa found someone on the net WHOM she could ask. [Yes, whom is still
alive and well.] Placement of the relative pronoun is a matter of
clarity. This is clear. "Lisa found someone whom she could ask on the
net" would be less correct because "on the net" is too far away from
"someone." The prepositional phrase should be as close as possible to
the noun/pronoun being modified.
The New York sentence -- If you use "them," you have two sentences.
"Which" creates a dependent clause, so the punctuation is correct as
written.
>>> Wendy Liu-劉立萍 <[log in to unmask]> 4/27/2010 9:20 PM >>>
Hi, I am a new subcribers of ATEG. I teach English as a foreign
language in Taiwan. And here i have 2 questions about grammar would like
to invite your comments.
Hi, I have a question about reported speech as below
The question on a quiz shown
He asked me. ( Actually, i don't think this is a correct sentence. )
How does Judy go to school every day ?
The quiz asked students to combine these two sentences into one.
Should we say " He asked me how Judy goes to school every day " OR "
He asked me how Judy went to school every day. "
Which is better ? or more used ? more correct ?
Here is another sentence. " Linda found someone on the net who she
could ask. "
I knew that both " one the net" and " who she could ask " modify "
someone ", but i am tied by the grammar rule " we put the relative
pronon right after the noun we want to motify ". In this case, who
clause modifies someone, but it was not put after someone. Is there an
available rule to explain this sturcture ?
By the way, in this case i think they mean the same but just by
different functions. right ?
Linda found someone sho she could ask on the net . ( on the net here is
an adv phrase to express where to find)
Linda found someone on the net who she could ask. ( one the net here is
an adj phrase to modify someone )
Additionally, here is another sentence.
" There are a lot of interesting things in New York, most of which are
hard to forget.
Why is it not most of them but most of which ? and the relative pronoun
is very far from the noun it tries to modify ?
All the grammar books and exercises i have said that the relative
pronouns go together with the nouns they modify. Does anyone know any
grammar books which can explain above two structures ?
Thank you for your time.
Wendy Liu
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald Walton
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: ATEG Digest - 15 Mar 2010 to 17 Mar 2010 (#2010-37)
If what is the functional subject of a verbless clause that is
comprised of the complements of a complex transitive verb, that is, a
direct object and its complement, then the subject complement becomes an
object complement. The reverse of this shift takes place in the passive
of a complex transitive:
Active: Her teachers consider Mary bright.
Passive: Mary is considered bright by her teachers.
In the passive version, "bright" is now a subject complement.The
textbook used in my grammar class in 1955 actually called them
subjective complements after as passive verb, to make the distinction.
"When a sentence containing a direct object and an objective complement
is turned into the passive voice, the direct object becomes the subject
of the passive verb and the objective complement becomes a subjective
complement." In a footnote the authors added, "A subjective complement
after a passive verb might be regarded as a 'retained objective
complement' ...--that is, as an objective complement 'retained' from the
active construction" (or, to use Herb's term, an object complement).
Gerald
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