spider wrote:
Beyond700 wrote:
Raffie wrote:
It has to be (C)
A, B and E suggest that the energy reserves caused the unemployment, not the strike.
D suggests that the strike created the workers.
On target. OA is C
Lately I have been confusing myself more and more with the usage of "Which" - I guess I have been too many sources.
1. Which can be used as a relative pronoun referring back to the closest noun and always preceded by a comma - I agree with this one its easy.
2. But sometimes which behaves like an absolute phrase and refers back to the previous sentence as a whole.
Why cant the usage of which above be the latter of the two??
Is the which in the options above a restrictive or non-restrictive clause
can someone please please help me out here.....
This is how I see it...
In the above sentence:
The coal strike reduced Indian's energy reserves,
which...
The coal strike -
Subject
reduced -
verb
Indiana's energy reserves -
object
which - modifier . Modifies the object with this clause 'caused unemployment among the workers'
Here
which rightly points to a noun but the whole sentence is illogical.
Absolute phrases are made of nouns or pronouns followed by a participle and any modifiers of the noun or pronoun. Absolute phrases contain a subject (unlike participial phrases), and no predicate. They serve to modify an entire sentence.
Where as the relative pronoun
which refers to inanimate things and to animals: in their noun or pronoun form
As the first clause can stand by itself and also, as there is a comma
, before
which - non-restrictive clause[/b]