1. Relative clauses are “embedded” grammatical structures, contained inside other grammatical structures. 2. Relative clauses play a central role in English discourse. 3. Relative clause knowledge is ...

An essential relative clause provides necessary, defining information about the noun. On the other hand, non‐ essential relative clauses provide additional, non‐necessary information about the noun.

If you ever feel bad about your grammar or embarrassed you don’t know more, here’s a story that might make you feel better. Recently, I reread something I wrote years ago about “good things come to he ...

St'at'imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet, Northern Interior Salish) boasts an impressive array of six distinct types of relative clause: `headless', prenominal, postposed, postnominal, nominalized locative, and ...

Complete the sentence: "The student _____ (who, whom, whose) dog has run away, has gone to look for it." There are two types of relative clauses: defining relative clauses (specify which noun we are ...

Baltimore Sun copy editor extraordinaire John McIntyre uses the term “dog-whistle editing” to refer to tiny editing issues that only copy editors notice (and perhaps only copy editors care about).

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information American Speech is concerned principally with the English language in the Western Hemisphere, although articles dealing with ...