This book reports on the results of a project whose aim was to give a detailed description of a number of syntactic properties of postmodifying clauses in the E

What makes the noun phrase 'the man I saw' more complex than 'the man'? This book explores that question.

Using corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.

Unlike other textbooks, it helps students to understand grammar rather than see it as a set of facts and rules.