Basic English Syntax with Exercises

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There are three main types of relative clauses, wh-relatives, that-relatives and zero-relatives. Wh-relatives contain an overt wh-pronoun associated with a trace of the noun head in the nominal structure while that-relatives and zero-relatives contain the non-overt counterpart (a null operator) of the relative pronoun associated with the trace of the noun. Besides, there are the so-called headless relatives that apear to lack amodified noun head, but they also have the distribution of a DP so they shuld be analysed as such: [whoever you support] will be promoted.