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.

The woman who / that lives next door is a doctor. となりに住んでいる女性は医者だ。 Where is the cheese that / which was in the fridge? 冷蔵庫にあったチーズはどこ？ このふたつの文の who, which, that は、relative clause（関係詞節）の主語の役割をしています。

Some sentences below contain relative clauses; some do not. If you believe that a sentence contains a relative clause, (A) Click on the first word of the relative clause. (B) Then click on the last ...

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 ...

In the world of English grammar, you’re familiar with pronouns. Words like “he,” “she,” and “it” refer to certain common or proper nouns. However, there’s another subset of pronouns that can ...

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 ...

Introduction To demonstrate the efficacy of LSTMs in learning long-term dependencies which confuse even humans, I designed a toy language to model relative clause constructions in English. Sentences ...