An essential relative clause provides necessary, defining information about the noun. On the other hand, non‐ essential relative clauses provide additional, non‐necessary information about the noun.

(1) a. Everything I don’t eat is food for the dog. b. All I don’t eat is food for the dog. These sentences appear very similar on the surface, but have very different meanings. (1a) means the speaker ...

We are concluding our discussion on phrases, clauses and sentences today. In the last two classes, we compared the three, underlining how a sentence is usually a combination of clauses and phrases. We ...