Grammar questions?

[Ever Student]

Would you please explaine the following questons?

1- The baby-sitter, in whose care Mrs.Van had left her children.

I want to know what the part of speech and the meaning of "care" here is?

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2- A great number of senior citizens have as active a life as those much younger than they.

Whay does a life come after active?


Thanks in advance.

[Soup]

Hello taghavi

1- care functions as a noun

whose takes a noun

2- active [of] a life

a life functions as the object of the omitted preposition of

[Ever Student]

Hello,
And Is it correct if (of) is omitted?

[Soup]

Hello,
And Is it correct if (of) is omitted?

Yes.