Relative clauses are used to give additional information about a noun, such as a person, place or thing. Relative pronouns introduce a relative clause. They include who for people, that and which for ...

1. Relative clauses are “embedded” grammatical structures, contained inside other grammatical structures. 2. Relative clauses play a central role in English discourse. 3. Relative clause knowledge is ...

The man who lives next door is very friendly. In the above sentence, the relative clause who lives next door modifies the noun ‘man’. It gives more information about the subject and is essential to ...

(1) a. Everything I don’t eat is food for the dog. b. All I don’t eat is food for the dog. These sentences appear very similar on the surface, but have very different meanings. (1a) means the speaker ...

Defining relative clauses give us important information about the person, thing or place that we are talking about. When making a relative clause, we can use the following relative pronouns: who for ...

Relative clauses are bound clauses that modify NPs and occasionally CPs. The former are adjoined to NPs. A relative clause contains a WH-phrase which moves and is adjoined to CP: The student who likes ...