Mahrukh Baig2013-11-212013-11-212012International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 24 [Special Issue – December 2012]https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/863The current paper presents an in-depth analysis of a variety of non-kernel clauses in English. The structures discussed include interrogatives and negatives with their contrastive types and uses. It further takes up clausal combinations such as subordinates and coordinates with reference to their various functions. Moreover, a detailed exploration of thematic variation follows with particular regards to information structure. Such constructions deal with extrapositioning, existentials and clefts as to how these clauses take account of information packaging in a message, thereby combining syntactic functions to the semantic and pragmatic strategies.enLinguisticsSyntaxSyntactic StructuresEnglish GrammarNon-kernel ClausesArticle