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...

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...

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...

content clauses, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and clauses that complement an independent clause in the subjunctive mood. A content clause, also...

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...

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...

sentence and clause structure, commonly known as sentence composition, is the classification of sentences based on the number and kind of clauses in their...

There are two kinds of relative clauses in Irish: direct and indirect. Direct relative clauses begin with the leniting relativizer a and the independent...

In linguistics, a relativizer (abbreviated RELZ) is a type of conjunction that introduces a relative clause. For example, in English, the conjunction...

Dependent clauses have other cross-cutting types. These include relative and comparative clauses; and participial and infinitival clauses. Finally, there...

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...

head nouns before relative clauses, Mandarin places head nouns after relative clauses. As a result, subject-gapped relative clauses in Mandarin, just...

The English relative words are words in English used to mark a clause, noun phrase or preposition phrase as relative. The central relative words in English...

the verb of the relative clause. Relative clauses are marked with final determiners. If the definite referent of the relative clause has already been...

or object of a clause, acting as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases, but are also used in relative clauses to relate the main clause to a subordinate...

subordinate clauses using various conjunctions: In Sabaic, relative clauses are marked by a Relativiser like ḏ-, ʾl, mn-; in free relative clauses this marking...

between ordinary relative clauses (which serve as adjectives) and other types. If the relative pronoun is to be the subject of the clause's verb, qui is ordinarily...

clauses. When the subject of the relative clause matches the subject of the main clause, the verb of the relative clause takes on the same-subject subordination...

most visible in cases of wh-fronting of information questions and relative clauses, but it is not limited to wh-fronting. It can also occur with almost...

shop. Comma splice Conditional sentence Dependent clause Relative clause Run-on sentence Sentence clause structure Rozakis, Laurie (2003). The Complete Idiot's...

replaced by "that", or (if not the subject of the clause) by zero. In relative clauses, "who" (like other relative pronouns) takes the number (singular or plural)...

clothes. (Compare this with I brushed my clothes after I fed the cat.) A relative clause takes commas if it is non-restrictive, as in I cut down all the trees...

Buffalo buffalo; when this pronoun is omitted, the relative clause becomes a reduced relative clause. An expanded form of the sentence that preserves the...

common syntactic traits: subject-object concord and center-embedding relative clauses. In each of these sentences, the object Dios 'God' is the same, but...

clause. Wh-movement is not possible from an adjunct clause. Adjunct clauses include clauses introduced by because, if, and when, as well as relative clauses...

for example, the head noun comes last, and all modifiers, including relative clauses, come in front of it. This phenomenon, however, is more typically found...

challenge, the relative pronoun which doesn't stand in for "the bike". Instead, it stands in for the entire proposition "I fixed the bike", a clause, or arguably...

Conditional clauses in Ancient Greek are clauses which start with εἰ (ei) "if" or ἐάν (eān) "if (it may be)". ἐάν (eān) can be contracted to ἤν (ḗn) or...

are relative clauses, complement clauses and adverbial clauses. Relative clauses follow the head N and are introduced by the invariant relative clause marker...

relative clause that is attributed to the cleft phrase. It-clefts introduce two meanings parts: (1) a presupposition that the property in the clause following...