• The following sections of A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Language (Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartik, Longman, London & New York, 1985) were consulted in preparing this entry:
grammatical units
2.3, 38
constituents
2.4, 39
chain and choice relationships
2.5,2.6; 41
the grammatical hierarchy
2.7, 42
embedding
2.8; 43
embedding of relative clauses in noun phrases
17.1, 1238