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.

Answer these questions and find out just how good you are with relative pronouns in English grammar! Illustration: Uttam Ghosh 'The man who you just spoke to is my father.' 'This is the house that my ...

This week’s column deals with two queries sent in by a reader from Chennai. The first query is about the relative pronoun “who” and the second query is about portmanteau words. Which of these two ...