Present tense verbless sentences involve a full clausal structure and not a reduced structure of the kind familiar under the term small clause.This article presents two new arguments in favor of this ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to ...

A dependent clause cannot stand alone, though they often contain both a subject and a verb. Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, ...

More than four years ago, I replied to this tough grammar question by a member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum: “Do noun clauses grammatically functioning as subjects in a sentence follow the sequence ...

In some cases, secondary effects of such changes can reshape basic clause structure. An awareness of these processes can accordingly aid in understanding certain recurring but hitherto unexplained ...

To understand the meaning of WH-operators, perhaps a look at the semantics or logic of WH-operators might be helpful. Let us start with the following sentence: WH-questions are linked to something in ...