TO show the semantic power of the three rhetorical devices that we have taken up the preceding columns — namely the resumptive modifier, the summative modifier, and the free modifier — it's tempting ...

USING relative clauses is a very convenient way to load sentences with more information. They do their job quite well when only one or two of relative clauses are involved, as in this sentence: "The ...

TO better appreciate the value of free modifiers, particularly of the kind that works in the same league as resumptive modifiers and summative modifiers, we must first survey the entire universe of ...