WE have already reviewed four reference word strategies, or the use of specific grammatical devices that allow us to clarify and enliven our spoken or written prose and to avoid unnecessarily ...

We will now take up relative pronouns as our sixth and last reference word strategy to clarify and enliven written or spoken prose without needless repetition. Recall that a relative pronoun links a ...

In English, relative pronouns are words such as that, who and which. In English relative pronouns. can be left out of the sentence but they must always be used in ...

People. People who need people. They’re the luckiest people in the world, according to some people. But according to other people, it’s not the people who need people but the people “that” need people ...

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 ...