NONRESTRICTIVE CLAUSE


Meaning of NONRESTRICTIVE CLAUSE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1916

: a descriptive clause that is not essential to the definiteness of the meaning of the word it modifies (as who is retired in “my father, who is retired, does volunteer work”)

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