By Whom, Adjuncts

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,...

Hello Casi Thank you for the detailed explanation. I think I got finally what you are saying. Please let me try to rephrase with my words what you are saying and please check if it is right. She By the way is it true we can never say "his it"?

Casi To tell the truth I don't know much about linguistic. I merely read some online handouts about generative grammar by Upenn's Beatrice Santorini. I read them just because I thought they would help me to deepen the understanding why English grammar is as it is. Maybe you know Japanese and...