The book is intend for higher level students of english and for teachers. Being a reference book, it contains information at various levels, ranging from relatively simple points to quite advanced grammar is the grammatical. | repetition 500 19 older English who and that which In older English who could be used in a similar way to what as noun relative pronoun together meaning the person who whoever or anybody who . In modern English this is very unusual. Who steals my purse steals trash. Shakespeare Othello Modern English Whoever Anybody who . That which used to be used in the same way as what. This too is very unusual in modern English. We have that which we need. Modern English We have what we need. 499 remind 1 meaning remind and remember These two verbs are not the same. Reminding somebody means making somebody remember . Compare - Remind me to pay the milkman not Remember me to pay . I m afraid I won t remember to pay the milkman. - This sort of weather reminds me of my home not This sort of weather remembers me . This sort of weather makes me remember my home. But note the special use of remember in Remember me to your parents and similar sentences. 2 structures After remind we can use an infinitive structure for actions or a -clause for facts . Please remind me to go to the post office not Please remind me of going. I reminded him that we hadn t got any petrol left. 3 remind . of. We use remind. of to say that something somebody makes us remember the past or things that have been forgotten. The smell of hay always reminds me of our old house in the country. not . reminds me our old house . Remind me of your phone number. We can also use remind . of to talk about similarities. She reminds me of her mother. She is like her mother. 500 repetition 1 avoidance of repetition In English unnecessary repetition is usually considered to be a bad thing. Careful writers generally try not to use the same words and structures in successive clauses and sentences without a good reason when expressions are repeated it is often for deliberate emphasis or other stylistic purposes. Casual repetition is more common in informal language but even in conversation people often sound monotonous or clumsy
