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...

of relative clauses in this way only in speaking, not in writing. Another difference in English is that only restrictive relative clauses may be introduced...

restrictive) relative clauses in either case. For details see English relative clauses. Relativizer Relative clause English relative clauses Relative pronouns...

an English non-reduced relative clause and reduced relative clause. Because of the omission of function words, the use of reduced relative clauses, particularly...

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

This article describes the syntax of clauses in the English language, chiefly in Modern English. A clause is often said to be the smallest grammatical...

introducing a relative clause. The promotional analysis is a transformational analysis from 1973 depicting relative clauses in English, and how relative pronouns...

verbs are produced in English, see English verbs. For the grammatical structure of clauses, including word order, see English clause syntax. For non-standard...

subordinate clauses.[citation needed] A primary division for the discussion of clauses is the distinction between independent clauses and dependent clauses. An...

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...

found only in restrictive relative clauses (unlike which and who, which can be used in both restrictive and unrestrictive clauses). It can refer to either...

English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts...

likes stories about ___. In English, the pied-piping mechanism is more flexible in relative clauses than in interrogative clauses, because material can be...

commas, whereas restrictive clauses are not. Furthermore, although restrictive clauses can be headed by any of the relative pronouns who(m), which, that...

conjunctions in English. Some of these give the clause an adverbial function, specifying time, place, or manner. Such clauses are called adverbial clauses. When...

command Which?, a UK charity and its magazine English relative clauses Interrogative clause Whicher (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing Which...

discriminator to differentiate between subjects of a clause. As a relative pronoun, that introduces restrictive clauses, such as in "the different factors that are...

pronoun appearing in a relative clause, which restates the antecedent after a pause or interruption (such as an embedded clause, series of adjectives,...

English relative clauses with a noun-noun-verb structure (as in the example above) the first noun can only be the object, native speakers of English who...

words in English with a central role in forming interrogative phrases and clauses and in asking questions. The main members associated with open-ended questions...

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...

well. Subjects of attributive clauses in which the head has a function (as is the case for all English relative clauses) usually require that if the subject...

English subordinators (also known as subordinating conjunctions or complementizers) are words that mostly mark clauses as subordinate. The subordinators...

or suffix). The most common types of zero-marking in English involve zero articles, zero relative pronouns, and zero subordinating conjunctions. Examples...

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)...

a variety of kinds of clauses as complements. Most often, they take finite clauses as complements.: 153–158  These finite clause complements can be declarative...

questions, see French grammar. French, like English, uses relative pronouns to introduce relative clauses. The relative pronoun used depends on its grammatical...

is a blend of two clauses through a lexical word that has two syntactical functions, one in each of the blended clauses. The clauses are connected asyndetically...

Purpose clauses differ from typical adverbial relations, and are a special case which, is closely related to complement clauses and some relative clauses. Purpose...

dependent clauses with future time reference is not confined to condition clauses; it also occurs in various temporal and relative clauses (as soon as...