• A relative clause is a clause that modifies a noun or noun phrase and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments in the relative...
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  • A reduced relative clause is a relative clause that is not marked by an explicit relative pronoun or complementizer such as who, which or that. An example...
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  • content clauses, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and clauses that complement an independent clause in the subjunctive mood. A content clause, also...
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  • Relative clauses in the English language are formed principally by means of relative words. The basic relative pronouns are who, which, and that; who also...
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  • A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause. An example is the word which in the sentence "This is the house which Jack built." Here the...
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  • introduce a relative clause and are not part of a question. The wh-word focuses a particular constituent, and most of the time, it appears in clause-initial...
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    Dependent clauses have other cross-cutting types. These include relative and comparative clauses; and participial and infinitival clauses. Finally, there...
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  • sentence and clause structure, commonly known as sentence composition, is the classification of sentences based on the number and kind of clauses in their...
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  • In linguistics, a relativizer (abbreviated RELZ) is a type of conjunction that introduces a relative clause. For example, in English, the conjunction...
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  • subject of the relative clause, it can be omitted (the song I listened to yesterday). The word what can be used to form a free relative clause – one that...
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