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Hello. Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs. What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

Anonymous wrote: Hi guys, just a point I'd like to clarify which was brought up at a seminar I attended regarding the drafting of legal documents. From my understanding, I've always thought that when a "request" (used as a verb) is made for an object, the sentence should be in the form...

Hi guys, just a point I'd like to clarify which was brought up at a seminar I attended regarding the drafting of legal documents. From my understanding, I've always thought that when a "request" (used as a verb) is made for an object, the sentence should be in the form "request + for + object",...

adjunct : 1) a word or word group that qualifies or completes the meaning of another word or other words and is not itself a main structural element in its sentence. 2) an adverb or adverbial (as heartily in "Most children eat heartily" or at noon in "We will leave at noon") attached to the...