IN the preceding chapter, we compared a bound modifier to an animal species that has already arrived at its evolutionary dead-end and a free relative modifier to a species that partakes of a wide gene ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper ‘Relative clauses in Slovene: diachronic puzzles, synchronic patterns’ is concerned with two relativization strategies in Slovene: ...

Free relative clause. We are deferring discussion of free relative clauses for last because we'll be giving them much fuller treatment than the rest. There's a special reason for giving them this much ...

For each pair of sentences below, think about ways of combining the two sentences into one new sentence containing a “restrictive relative clause.” Recall that a restrictive relative clause, which is ...

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.