This page collects together material on English at the level of clauses, sentences, and sentence-to-sentence relations. This includes active and passive voice (e.g. with respect to ordering information in a sentence), dependent and independent clauses, finite and non-finite clauses, restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses, word order, punctuation, and cohesion from sentence to sentence with e.g. the use of pronouns and repeated words, linking adverbials, or backward/ forward/ context-dependent referencing (anaphora/ cataphora/ deixis). Of particular importance in Anglo-American academic writing is the structuring of sentences by topic and focus (theme and rheme, to use Prague School terminology), and the use of cohesive patterns across sentences, such as the turn-by-turn movement from old to new information.

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