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puzzle
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 Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: attributive clause |
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Dear teachers,
Here are two sentences like this:
1.They all climbed to the top of the tower, from where they could see what was happening in the distance.
2. The book was written in1946, since when the education system has witnessed great changes.
I want to know if we can say "from which","since which"? And if we can say like this ,what's their differences?
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Bob S.
Joined: 29 Apr 2004
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Location: So. Cal
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:07 am Post subject: Re: attributive clause |
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| puzzle wrote: |
1.They all climbed to the top of the tower, from where they could see what was happening in the distance.
I want to know if we can say "from which", |
Yes. In this case, you can consider the top of the tower as a place (from where) or a thing (from which).
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2. The book was written in 1946, since when the education system has witnessed great changes.
"since which"? |
That does not work so well. 1946 in this case is considered a time, so since when works better, and since which would sound odd. However, if you say in the year 1946, then since which could work since the year as a noun can be referred to by which.
e.g. 1969 is the year in which many important things happened.
1969 is when many important things happened. |
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