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moemendhia

please help

hello

please could you help me with this :

He bumped into the last man in the queue, .... unlucky man fell down. which whose who what

It was given in a Tunisian national exam ,my friend insertd "who" but was considered false & has been told that "which " is the correct one .what do you think?

thanks in advance .

6 May 2015

yanogator

"Which" is correct, although it is a very formal sentence, and we wouldn ï¿½t say it this way.

In this sentence, "who" would be a pronoun, which would substitute for the word "man", so we would have ï¿½

He bumped into the last man in the queue, who fell down.

Since "man" is still there, we need an adjective, in this case "which"

He bumped into the last man in the queue, which unlucky man fell down.

Again, this is grammatically correct, but very stiff and formal sounding.

Bruce

6 May 2015

moemendhia

I ï¿½m really greatful Bruce ,thanks a lot for your precious deatiled explanation :)

6 May 2015

Majedimen

the sentence sounds so strange! i wonder wether the pupils could undrestand the meaning..

7 May 2015