Relative clauses are bound clauses that modify NPs and occasionally CPs. The former are adjoined to NPs. A relative clause contains a WH-phrase which moves and is adjoined to CP: The student who likes ...

More than four years ago, I replied to this tough grammar question by a member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum: “Do noun clauses grammatically functioning as subjects in a sentence follow the sequence ...

Some sentences below contain relative clauses; some do not. If you believe that a sentence contains a relative clause, (A) Click on the first word of the relative clause. (B) Then click on the last ...

Modifying sentences containing relative clauses is no easy task! Because relative clauses play a central role in English discourse, modifying text can result in awkward or unnatural discourse. However ...