ABSTRACT
This chapter look at the ways in which clauses are combined with each other to form clause complexes. Clauses enter into the construction of sentences in one of two ways: they are either free or bound. The characteristic of free clauses is the fact that within them, the English grammar provides mood options which signal the way in which the speaker is involving himself and his addressee in a communication act. The grammar of the free clause allows the speaker to opt out of the mood system and produce a moodless free clause. Moodless clauses are minor clauses, which means that they have no predicator and since subject is a function defined by relation to a predicator, they have no subject either. P-bound clauses are important type of bound clause which shows that it is bound by the form of its verbal group and this phenomenon is called as predicator-binding. The predicators in P-bound clauses are non-finite verbal groups.
