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Old 30-Sep-2004, 14:19
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Default relative pronoun VS relative adverb

Dear teachers,

To which category these underlined words belong?
Which category these underlined words belong to?
(which stce is best?)

a) I don't know what to do.
b) I don't know how to do it.
c) I don't know who that man is.

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Hela
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Old 30-Sep-2004, 22:46
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I'd say a&c are pronouns and b might be debated as to whether it is an adverb or a conjunction. I'd o for the latter.
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Old 01-Oct-2004, 01:11
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For b)
There's 1 clear sentence (without any combination of sub-sentences). "How" here does not connect any sentences, so it is adverb.

(compare:
She described to me how he ran up to her and grabbed her handbag.
Here the first sub-sentence is She described to me. Second one is he ran up to her and grabbed her handbag
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