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"That" is a relative pronoun. In any event, these are just labels. The important thing is that relative adverbs have restrictions. For example, relative "when" must modify nouns that express a unit of time, which is what happens in "the day when." The relative pronoun "that" doesn't have that restriction.
If we are defining "where" and "when" as relative adverbs, however - it must be based on something other than their following an modifying a noun, such as, perhaps, their substituting for an adverbial. "That" is a relative pronoun (usually), because it normally replaces a noun.
When we met is a relative clause, because when is a relative adverb. But what function does the when clause serve in the whole sentence? Actually the sentence is ambiguous and when might be omitted: Last Monday when we met, she gave me her number. Possible meanings: Last Monday, the day we met, she gave me her number.
It seems relative adverbs can be omitted sometimes while it also can't be omitted sometimes. For example, "when" can be omitted in "the day I met him", but "where" can not, I suppose, be omitted in "This is the house where we used to live." What confused me is that I couldn't really tell what makes it ok to omit the relative adverb.
It also uses the term relative adverb and distinguishes relative pronouns and adverbs. The authors cite a study done in 1978 by Snow in which a database was used to search for relative adverbs. He (she?) concluded that "how" is rarely, if ever, used as a relative adverb when the head noun is used. The place where The time when but not the way how
To my understanding, relative pronouns and relative adverbs, in relative clauses, serve a similar function to subordinating conjunctions in other types of clauses. According to my "Grammar for English Language Teachers" book by Martin Parrott, in the sentence "Is this the room where the...
Memorizing a list of words is "the student learned some relative adverbs", not "the student learned all relative adverbs". Sentence (2) could mean some or all. I was interpreting it as all. The native speaker interpreted it as some. If you want to avoid being ambigous, write "a list of some relative adverbs" or "a list of all relative adverbs".
RELATIVE ADVERBS. Thread starter chunganhvu; Start date Nov 27, 2016; C. chunganhvu Member. Vietnamese ...
Hi there, just wondering why the relative adverb- where is used in the following sentence instead of relative pronouns like that or which. Thank you We will play a football game against a local high school. You've gotten pretty good at the game, so we'll see how you will play. Remember that it's always a game where the best strategy wins.
In order to make the difference between relative pronouns and relative adverbs clear,the textbook I use in my grammar class says, " the place where I visit" is incorrect because "visit" is a transitive verb and we should use "which" or "that" instead of "where." But this very textbook makes us choose "where" as an answer, and I am wondering if ...