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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Symbol, String, Infinitive, Clause, Word usage, Gerund, Relative clause, Focus, Participle, Subject, Dangling modifier, Tag question, Dependent clause, Serial verb construction, Reduced relative clause, Sentence, Object, Complement, Garden path sentence, Definite description, Verb argument, Adpositional phrase, Adjunct, Adverbial, Indirect speech, Transderivational search, Existential clause, Disjunct, Inversion, Head, Conjunct, Trace, T-unit, Sluicing, Pseudo-passive, Phrasal template, Subject-auxiliary inversion, Topic sentence, Independent clause, Specifier, Compound sentence, Complex sentence, Deductive system, Sloppy identity, Predicative, Non-restrictive clause, Adnoun, Grammatical construction, Non-finite clause, Nominal, Small clause, Proemial relation, Pronominal, Protasis, Telegraphic Construction. Excerpt: A relative clause is a subordinate clause that modifies a noun phrase, most commonly a noun. For example, the phrase "the man who wasn't there" contains the noun man, which is modified by the relative clause who wasn't there. A relative clause can also modify a pronoun, as in "he to whom I have written," or a noun phrase which already contains a modifier, as in "the black panther in the tree, which is about to pounce." The complete phrase (modified noun phrase plus modifying relative clause) is also a noun phrase. In many European languages, relative clauses are introduced by a special class of pronouns called relative pronouns; in the previous example, who is a relative pronoun. In other languages, relative clauses may be marked in different ways: they may be introduced by a special class of conjunctions called relativizers; the main verb of the relative clause may appear in a special morphological variant; or a relative clause may be indicated by word order alone. In some languages, more than one of t...
