When the right words team up in a sentence, it just sounds right. But when words clash, your ears tell you something’s off. That’s where the rules of concord swoop in to match up words properly.

An essential relative clause provides necessary, defining information about the noun. On the other hand, non‐ essential relative clauses provide additional, non‐necessary information about the noun.

Last week, we discussed the first five of the eight functions that noun clauses can perform in a sentence, namely (1) as subject, (2) as subject complement, (3) as direct object, (4) as object ...

For each pair of sentences below, think about ways of combining the two sentences into one new sentence containing a “restrictive relative clause.” Recall that a restrictive relative clause, which is ...

A relative clause is a type of subordinate clause that modifies a noun. For example, ‘Mr and Mrs Selfie arrived in the car that they had bought this morning.’ If often does this by using a relative ...