Most prior studies have reported that subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs) are easier to process than object-extracted relative clauses (ORCs). However, whether such an SRC preference is ...

It was suggested that processing subject relative clauses (SRCs) is universally easier than processing object relative clauses (ORCs) based on the studies carried out in head-initial languages such as ...

Complete the sentence: "The student _____ (who, whom, whose) dog has run away, has gone to look for it." There are two types of relative clauses: defining relative clauses (specify which noun we are ...

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 ...

This paper provides a syntactic analysis of noun phrase movement in raising predicates in Kimuthambi. The study is guided by the Principles and Parameters theory by Chomsky & Lasnik (1993) and in ...

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 level of grammatical understanding needed rises significantly between LKS2 and UKS2. One area requiring a very strong grammatical understanding in KS2 is relative pronouns and relative clauses.