A Noun followed by a Relative Adjective Clause where the relative pronoun is subject of the relative clause, can be reduced to a noun phrase where the noun is pre-modified by the predicate of relative clause. Noun Phrases make sentences less wordy by avoiding use of relative adjective clause.
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A CLAUSE is a collection of grammatically related words including a predicate and a subject. A collection of grammatically related words without a subject or predicate is called a phrase. The word gro
As is the case with nouns, a noun phrase may act as a subject, the object of a verb or verbal, a subject complement or object complement, or the object of a preposition. A noun phrase consists of a pr
There are following 17 ways for a verb to take a complement depending upon its semantic property embedded in the meaning of the verb which makes a verb intransitive, mono-transitive, di-transitive, co