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...
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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...
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A reduced relative clause is a relative clause that is not marked by an explicit relative pronoun or relativizer such as who, which or that. An example...
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content clauses, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and clauses that complement an independent clause in the subjunctive mood. A content clause, also...
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Jack built." Here the relative pronoun which introduces the relative clause. The relative clause modifies the noun house. The relative pronoun, "which," plays...
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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...
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In linguistics, a relativizer (abbreviated RELZ) is a type of conjunction that introduces a relative clause. For example, in English, the conjunction...
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Dependent clauses have other cross-cutting types. These include relative and comparative clauses; and participial and infinitival clauses. Finally, there...
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head nouns before relative clauses, Mandarin places head nouns after relative clauses. As a result, subject-gapped relative clauses in Mandarin, just...
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sentence and clause structure, commonly known as sentence composition, is the classification of sentences based on the number and kind of clauses in their...
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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...
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Buffalo buffalo; when this pronoun is omitted, the relative clause becomes a reduced relative clause. An expanded form of the sentence that preserves the...
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There are two kinds of relative clauses in Irish: direct and indirect. Direct relative clauses begin with the leniting relativizer a and the independent...
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shop. Comma splice Conditional sentence Dependent clause Relative clause Run-on sentence Sentence clause structure Rozakis, Laurie (2003). The Complete Idiot's...
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Shoshoni language (section Relative clauses)
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...
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Pied-piping (section Wh-clauses vs. relative clauses)
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...
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Sabaic (section Relative clauses)
subordinate clauses using various conjunctions: In Sabaic, relative clauses are marked by a Relativiser like ḏ-, ʾl, mn-; in free relative clauses this marking...
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Comparison of American and British English (section Use of that and which in restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses)
defined by the relative clause. An example of a restrictive clause is "The dog that bit the man was brown." An example of a non-restrictive clause is "The dog...
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French pronouns (section In ordinary relative clauses)
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...
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for positive verbs, in addition to further patterns for negative and relative clause verbs. Often the same tonal pattern is used by more than one tense...
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English grammar (section Clause and sentence structure)
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...
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German pronouns (section Relative pronouns)
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...
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Crow language (section Relative clauses)
the verb of the relative clause. Relative clauses are marked with final determiners. If the definite referent of the relative clause has already been...
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Wh-movement (section In relative clauses)
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...
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Chinese grammar (section 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...
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Conjunction (grammar) (redirect from Co-ordinate clause)
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...
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Roviana language (section Relative clauses)
are relative clauses, complement clauses and adverbial clauses. Relative clauses follow the head N and are introduced by the invariant relative clause marker...
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Center embedding (redirect from Center-embedded clauses)
grounds alone. The most frequently used example involves embedding a relative clause inside another one as in: A man that a woman loves ⇒ {\displaystyle...
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Who (pronoun) (section As relative pronoun)
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)...
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Modern Greek grammar (section Relative clauses)
relative clause apart from the relativizer. Some other types of relativized elements, however, such as possessors, are represented within the clause by...
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