Clauses preceded by Wh-ever words are not declarative or reported speech like ‘that’ clause or indirect embedded questions like ‘wh-clause’. Wh-ever words are used as Preposition in Adjuncts Phrase containing Content Clause, or as Free Relative in Relative Clause, or to express ignorance/indifference.
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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
Content Clause as Noun Complement A content clause preceded by marker ‘that’ complements an abstract noun which is an abstraction of the content clause itself. As Subject with Linking verb That farme
When a question is restated as part of a main clause it becomes an embedded question. Such embedded questions headed by Wh-word or How is a Content Clause inside another sentence which itself can be a