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...

focuses on finite clauses, the awareness of non-finite clauses having arisen much later in connection with the modern study of syntax. The discussion here...

that has of the car as a complement. Preposition fronting (see English clause syntax § Fronting and zeroing) and stranding can occur when the complement...

grammar of the English language gives the following: The words not and never are adverbs that participate in negation (see English clause syntax § Negation)...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. English Clause may refer to: A vertical restraint under competition law English clause syntax This disambiguation page lists...

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

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

see English clause syntax. As modal verbs only have tensed forms in Standard English, they would not be expected to appear in subordinate clauses, or...

are rare. In most generative theories of syntax, the surface differences arise from a more complex clausal phrase structure, and each order may be compatible...

of English verb forms § Uses of non-finite verbs, and English passive voice. English clause syntax Supine Verbal noun Balancing and deranking M.A.K. Halliday;...

cutting by a professional. [complex construction] See also English clause syntax § Non-finite clauses. The sections below discuss some generalizations that...

sell. For more details on how verbs are built up into clauses, see English clause syntax. Many English verbs are used in particular combinations with adverbial...

nouns and adjectives. Using parallel syntax among two clauses is known as an isocolon, when among three clauses it is known as a tricolon. Having similar...

no major differences between word order in main and subordinate clauses. English syntax relies on auxiliary verbs for many functions including the expression...

Category theory – General theory of mathematical structures English clause syntax – Clauses in English grammar Generative semantics – Research program in theoretical...

that position to the front of the sentence/clause in the surface structure. Although other theories of syntax do not use the mechanism of movement in the...

Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project ὁ in Liddell and Scott Gallis, Arne (1956). The syntax of relative clauses in Serbo-Croatian:...

using existential clauses. For details on the English forms, see English grammar: There as pronoun. Many languages form existential clauses without any particular...

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...

(Greenbaum and Quirk, 1990), adverbial clauses function mainly as adverbial adjuncts or disjuncts but differ in syntax from adverbial phrases and adverbial...

Movement of a grammatical component to the start of a clause; see: wh-fronting English clause syntax § Fronting and zeroing Domain fronting, a censorship...

In syntax, dislocation is a sentence structure in which a constituent, which could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of the clause, occurs...

published in 1909; two through five were on syntax; six was on morphology; and seven returned to the topic of syntax. It took until 1949 for all seven to be...

traditional English grammars, as a subordinate clause (or dependent clause); and it is then labelled not as a phrase, but as a clause. Most theories of syntax view...

English verbs English clause syntax Intensifier This article uses asterisks to indicate ungrammatical examples. Kaplan, Jeffrey P. (1989), English Grammar:...

as a small clause varies in the literature: the example sentences in (8) contain (what some theories of syntax judge to be) small clauses. In each example...

In syntax, verb-second (V2) word order is a sentence structure in which the finite verb of a sentence or a clause is placed in the clause's second position...

and prefers content clause.: 91  In English, there are two main kinds of content clauses: declarative content clauses (or that-clauses), which correspond...

In syntax, shifting occurs when two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions in a sense to obtain non-canonical...

English Usage. OUP. p. 457. (Cited from the revised ed. 1940). Haiden, M. 2006. “Verb particle constructions”, in The Blackwell companion to syntax,...