Tricky relative clauses
The following attested example poses some interesting syntactic questions:
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14.11.2025 12:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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30.06.2025 10:42 β π 3 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
New Substack post by Bas Aarts: On so-called adjective clauses: a label to avoid
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27.06.2025 09:04 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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13.06.2025 15:33 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Well think about this for future years but itβs not straightforward unfortunately
10.05.2025 14:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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03.05.2025 12:36 β π 3 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
New Substack post by Bas Aarts: Can clauses function as Subject?
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01.05.2025 09:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New Substack post by Bas Aarts on Subjects.
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08.04.2025 11:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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04.04.2025 13:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Can prepositional phrases function as Subject in a clause?
Yes, but in a restricted way
New Substack post by Bas Aarts: Can prepositional phrases function as Subject in a clause?
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21.03.2025 11:38 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
New research chapter, just published: 'Verb Phrases as Attributive Nominal Modifiers'
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06.03.2025 11:55 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
New Substack post by Bas Aarts: More on Predicative Complements: 'for' and 'as'
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20.02.2025 13:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Survey of English Usage Annual Report for 2024 is now available here:
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18.02.2025 14:38 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Sorry, there was an error in the earlier message about this year's English Grammar Day. Monday 7 July 2025 is the correct date. Bookings will be on the British Library events website, but you can also check here: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag...
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03.02.2025 08:35 β π 2 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
New Substack post by Bas Aarts: What is a Predicative Complement?
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31.01.2025 11:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New Substack post by Bas Aarts:
'Each' as a floating quantifier
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15.01.2025 16:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New Substack post:
Which word class do 'possessive' words belong to? Adjectives, determinatives or pronouns?
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02.01.2025 12:00 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
The Naked Week - Series 1 - Episode 2: Spin, Milestones, and Monopoly (Qatar edition) - BBC Sounds
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