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Originally Posted by Grablevskij  There is a book Advanced Grammar in Use by Martin Hewings.
And it is written in it:
Relative clauses begins with whatever, whoever or whichever are used to talk about things or people that are indefinite or unknown.
And there is one of the examples that astonishes me:
Whichever one of you broke the window will have to pay for it.
Why do they need one of you? Can we not use whichever of you?
Michael |
Yes you can.
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Originally Posted by Grablevskij And now I notice another exercise there:
A plumber is... job it is to...
I would say: a plumber is a person whose job is to repair sanitation.
Michael |
You can use either. I would expect the following contexts:
A plumber is a person whose job it is to ...
A plumber is the person whose job is to repair sanitation - not a carpenter.
That is, the second defines a plumber (among other tradespeople) and the second simply explains what a plumber does. But this distinction is arguable.
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