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relative clause

noun

  1. a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or ( that ) I wrote in Here's the letter ( that ) I wrote.


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There are two sets of forms according as to whether the verb occurs in a relative clause or not.

The sentence makes complete sense without the relative clause.

Ted Radford, the station overseer, was a personage not to be dismissed in a relative clause.

Relative Clause—A clause joined to the rest of the sentence by a relative pronoun.

The relative that is often omitted by Chaucer before a relative clause, as, again, in l. 4365.

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