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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

However, in the negated and inverted clauses referred to above, it is used because the rules of English syntax permit these constructions only when an...

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;...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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:...

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:...

the clause. On the other hand, Robert Borsley has argued against an underlying SVO analysis. The arguments that Roberts makes about Welsh syntax are largely...

understood)) have only rarely follows auxiliary verb syntax; do, see do-support; to, of to-infinitival clauses (if to is a defective verb, not a subordinator)...

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

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

than applying it to the full clause with must). For more details and other similar cases, see the relevant sections of English modal verbs. Negation flips...

used to separate clauses. In English, a comma is used to separate a dependent clause from the independent clause if the dependent clause comes first: After...