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This paper explores properties of extraposition in English and provides the previous analyses of extraposition and their problems, focusing Koster's (2000) parallel construal analysis and Sheehan's (2011) scattered deletion analysis. To solve them, we assume Richards' (2009) suggestion that internal pair merge must be required to accommodate Agree-less movement. Given this, we argue that extraposition in English can be divided into two types: one is that extraposed elements such as relative clause, PP adjunct, subject CP and object CP, are directly merged in the rightmost position, due to external pair merge. The other is that after the extraposed element like PP complement is set-merged with source NP because of the Ɵ-relation, it is moved on the rightmost position via internal pair merge. Our proposal provides independent evidence that extraposition is not a PF movement but an operation in narrow syntax with interpretative effects