IN the preceding chapter, we compared a bound modifier to an animal species that has already arrived at its evolutionary dead ...

5. There are different types of relative clauses with different properties. 6. Some relative clauses contain “gaps,” where it looks like a sentence element is missing. 7. Relative clauses pose a ...

This example does not crash (has a grammatical form) only if the second who is a headless relative. We have not covered headless relative clauses yet--they are adjoined to empty NPs. A sentence may ...

A relative clause can be used to give additional information about a noun. They are introduced by a relative pronoun like 'that', 'which', 'who', 'whose', 'where' and 'when'. For example: I won ...

A relative clause can be used to give additional information about a noun. They are introduced by a relative pronoun like 'that', 'which', 'who', 'whose', 'where' and 'when'. For example: I won ...

Think of non‐ essential relative clauses as adjectives describing the noun; you can remove adjectives without changing the meaning of the sentence. A relative clause can be introduced by either a ...

There are two types of relative clause: defining and non-defining. Defining relative clauses refer to which person or thing is being described. They cannot be removed from the sentence without losing ...

USING relative clauses is a very convenient way to load sentences with more information. They do their job quite well when ...

TO better appreciate the value of free modifiers, particularly of the kind that works in the same league as resumptive ...

IN last week's column we discussed the resumptive modifier. We saw that by using a key word in the main clause as the subject ...