Some days ago I heard a teacher saying the sentence: I want to talk to you who thinks differently from the crowd. It sounded unnatural, but if you consider that 'who' is the relative pronoun ruling the verb, he is right. Can you clear that out to/ for me? Thank you!
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Possible Duplicate:          This is a line spoken by the . I always wondered if this is grammatically correct.  Luke says something like "You are mistaken ..." which the Emperor answers with     No, it is you who are mistaken!   Why wouldn't he say     No, it is you who is mistaken!   instead?  I don't know what rules apply here but my stomach tells me the latter is (at least also) correct, although you would say "you are mistaken". It feels as if he should be referring to "you" in the third person.  Could you please shed some light? Are both correct or – if not – which one is correct? And why?
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I was reading a book and encountered this sentence (emphasis added by me):        I know it without his telling me.      Despite being grammatically correct, it seemed a little strange to me. What came to my mind was this sentence instead:        I know it without him telling me.      Another case was this:        I can’t control the fact of temptation, but there’s no chance of my giving in to it.      QUESTION: Is using "me" here in #3 (or "him" as done in the previous one) correct? If so, what's the difference between the two?
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For example, instead of      The guy who is beside me is a jerk     I can say        The guy beside me is a jerk.    It is okay if I don't use the relative pronoun here, either way is correct. But instead of "The guy who sits beside me is a jerk" I cannot say "The guy sits beside me is a jerk." And I cannot say "The people sit beside me are jerks." or "The people sit beside me keep changing." etc.   What is the rule about this? In what situations do I have a chance to not to use the relative pronoun?
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Today I heard a speaker use the phrase "this person", referring to the subject-person of the story they were telling, and I heard it as (that person). Between the words “this” or “that” in context with the phrase and story-tense, which should you use.
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"For someone used to the tiny creatures we get in England it was something of a shock."  I think, in this sentence, relative pronouns before some words have been omitted. I know rules of omitting relative pronouns, but in this case I have failed to understand before which words relative pronouns can be placed to understand the sentence perfectly, which has been stated above. Please, explain the rules of omitting relative pronouns with the help of the sentence stated above, so that I can be able to understand this type of sentences easily. You can also use other sentences to explain this fact clearly.  Thanks to everyone.
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I've been looking, but I have not come across this 'whom' related question anywhere.  Specifically in this circumstance, I feel 'with whom' flows more naturally but I remember someone suggested that 'whom with' is actually the proper order since it is referencing 'the people'     I am looking to find a friendly environment where I can enjoy my work and the people whom with I work.   Or     I am looking to find a friendly environment where I can enjoy my work and the people with whom I work.
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We always change subject and verb positions in whenever we want to ask a question such as "What is your name?". But when it comes to statements like the following, which form is correct?        I don't understand what are you talking about.   I don't understand what you are talking about.      Another example        Do you know what time is it?   Do you know what time it is?      Another example        Do you care how do I feel about this?   Do you care how I feel about this?
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What is the grammar behind the construction "I think it strange/necessary that ...", and when can and cannot this apparent omission of the copula be used? Do we always need the "that" clause?  Also, this seems to be only allowed when the object is a pronoun (it in the above example). That is, we don't say "I think this method strange", correct?
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Isn't the following sentence grammatically correct?     The group of fifty people are going to arrive Thursday.   What's wrong with it? Someone said it should be      The group of fifty people is going to arrive Thursday.   Why? People is plural so why is people is better than people are?
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In indirect speech we generally backshift the tense. For ex - Direct speech : "I am the most powerful person." Indirect speech : "He said that he was the most powerful person."  What if someone reports like -  He denied the charges claiming that he is/was the most powerful person. So here which is correct- is or was ?  Thanks in advance.
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We have been asked to correct the error in the sentence:     Either he or I is right.   The only possible change that I can think of goes like this:     Either I or he is right.   Am I right? It will be helpful if someone can state the rules for such sentences as I am unable to understand why the first sentence is wrong.
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I recently read the following in a schoolbook:     Wrote the researchers, "[...]"   I wonder if this is correct English. I have seen it a couple of more times. Is this just a matter of preference? English doesn't really have a very liberal word order, unless you're writing poetry or the like.  Can anyone tell me what this is called? I found some information on subject-verb inversion, but it only seems to be when the object is in front, but in this case, the word order is verb-subject-object.
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It is me who am to blame.    It is I who am to blame.      Which one is correct here? I am bewildered about these two sentences.
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The other day, my father and I were expecting my brothers to come home. Upon hearing a car enter the driveway, my father said, &quot;Your brothers are here.&quot; When I looked at the door, I could see that it was actually my sister who had arrived, and not my brothers, so I responded,  She's not my brothers.  This seemed like a very awkward construction, but I could not think of any reason that it would be ungrammatical, other than the subject being singular and the object being plural. I can think of several examples of sentences where the subject and object are different in number (with an intransitive verb: obviously there is nothing wrong with a transitive verb like &quot;kick&quot; having a subject an object differing in number) that do not seem to have any grammatical awkwardness.  We are a family. His mind and body are one. God is three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.  Is the sentence, &quot;she's not my brothers&quot; grammatically correct, and what makes it different from these other sentences?
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I came across this :     Unbelievable as it may seem, many individuals that fought in the   American Revolution were still alive in 1839, the year the world was introduced to photography. (choose the error - the 'answer' is in bold)   It noted that the reason "that fought" is wrong is that 'The relative pronoun “that” may not be used to refer to people (“individuals”) and should be replaced with the relative pronoun “who.”'   I had thought that the word "that" could refer to both people and objects (while which was reserved for objects and who reserved for people). Am I wrong?
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I searched the Internet to find which of the following is correct:        Who are we?   Who we are?      And I found that both are used. What is the correct sentence?
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I had a Grammar homework and I was asked to fill in the gap of the following sentence :   My father ... subscribe to the Newsweek.   I had been given four options and only one of them fits in with the sentence, they are as follows :   A- Said to me  B- Suggested that I   C- Suggests me to   D- Encouraged me  I had chosen the answer "C" but I discovered later that the teacher considered it as incorrect, and that "B" is the appropriate answer, which made me so confused. Could you please explain to me why ?