[Grammar] He must be keenly susceptible to people's wants ...

[Milo]

Hello. I was wondering if you could help me figure out why in the sentence below , the relative clause "at which " is correct.

He must be keenly susceptible to people's wants and be able to assess the price AT WHICH they would be prepared to satisfy them.

 

[PaulMatthews]

Re: Relative clause

He must be keenly susceptible to people's wants and be able to assess [the price at which they would be prepared to satisfy them].

The relative clause in full is "at which they would be prepared to satisfy them".

"At which" is just the relative phrase, a preposition phrase, where "which" is complement of the preposition "at".

The clause can be represented as "they would be prepared to satisfy them at R" (the relativised element), which has "price" as antecedent.

We understand that they would be prepared to satisfy them at some price and this is the price that he must be able to assess.

 

[Rover_KE]

Milo, please note that I have changed your thread title.

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