Demonstration of Embedded Relative Clause and Its Enlightenment to English Grammar Teaching
Xianghong Liu · Journal of Wenzhou University · 2009
We have analyzed the creative process of embedded relative clause on the basis of branching rules in the Generative Transformational Grammar and rank shifted rule in Systemic Functional Grammar,indicated that the differences between embedded relative clause and subordinate relative clause are the former's recursiveness and rank shifted construction,and further illustrated the function of this argumentation on grammar teaching:it proves the validity of pedagogical grammar and requires for grammar teachers' mastery of linguistic theory and their guiding functions on the students.