In English, relative pronouns are words such as that, who and which. In English relative pronouns. can be left out of the sentence but they must always be used 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.

We will now take up relative pronouns as our sixth and last reference word strategy to clarify and enliven written or spoken prose without needless repetition. Recall that a relative pronoun links a ...

This week’s column deals with two queries sent in by a reader from Chennai. The first query is about the relative pronoun “who” and the second query is about portmanteau words. Which of these two ...

Two weeks ago, we started the series on word classes. And last week, we delved into report writing. I thought it would be useful to intersperse the series, so we go back to word classes this week. We ...

Two weeks ago, Forum member Justine A. asked two very interesting grammar questions but it was only last Monday that I found time to thoroughly analyze them and write this column. The first question ...