Syntactic Analysis of Relative Clauses in the Dawn News Editorials

Abstract

In this qualitative research, our main focus is to understand the syntactic structure of the relative clauses in Dawn News Editorials. A relative clause is a dependent phrase that adds information to a pronoun or noun in the main body of text. A relative pronoun like "who which whom, whose that" is used at the beginning. And function as an adjective modifying the noun or pronoun. Example: ‘The pen which is on the table’ (which is on the table is a relative clause that gives more information about the pen. Relative clauses can be further divided into three types: I. Restrictive Relative Clauses, ii. Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses, and Free Relative Clauses This present study aims to understand major two types of Relative Clauses Restrictive and Nonrestrictive. To understand these types of relative clauses the data is collected from the Dawn News Editorials in this regard 25 clauses are taken from 4 Dawn News editorials of which twenty-four clauses are restrictive relative clauses and only one clause is Nonrestrictive relative clauses.