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Definition of Descriptive clause
1. Noun. A subordinate clause that does not limit or restrict the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descriptive Clause
Literary usage of Descriptive clause
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1832)
"The whole amount of the different parcels is stated, in the descriptive clause,
to be 60£ merks: while in the valent clause, the whole of the parcels are ..."
2. Essentials of English by Henry Carr Pearson, Mary Frederika Kirchwey (1915)
"The descriptive clause, like the descriptive adjective, describes a substantive by
... An apple that was golden was given to Paris. (descriptive clause. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Election Laws in Scotland: To which is Added an Historical by Arthur Connell (1827)
"But, within certain limits, the descriptive clause is admitted in illustration
of the valent. Thus, where different lands are, in the former clause, ..."
4. A First Latin Book by William Gardner Hale (1907)
"Hence we may call it a descriptive clause. 2. ... One may also use a Descriptive
Clause withoutany introductory word at all, after expressions of existence ..."
5. Syntax of Early Latin by Charles Edwin Bennett (1910)
"Quom is a form of the relative stem quo-, and, as such, was quite as capable of
introducing a descriptive clause as was any other relative word. ..."
6. Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, Upon Appeal from Scotland by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, John Craigie, John Shaw Stewart, Thomas S. Paton (1854)
"If the construction depended only upon this descriptive clause, I can put no
sense upon it but this, that it was meant to describe a five merk land, ..."
7. The Study of English by Douglas Gordon Crawford (1919)
"A restrictive clause makes the antecedent more definite or limits its number; a
descriptive clause makes an additional statement about an antecedent already ..."
8. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by House of Lords, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1832)
"U here the valent clause corresponds in cumulo exactly, or with u slight variation,
with the descriptive clause, wherein the parcels are separately ..."
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