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Definition of Relative clause
1. Noun. A clause introduced by a relative pronoun. "`who visits frequently' is a relative clause in the sentence `John, who visits frequently, is ill'"
Definition of Relative clause
1. Noun. (grammar) A subordinate clause that modifies a noun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Relative Clause
Literary usage of Relative clause
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"A relative clause can only be abridged when the relative is the subject of ...
For the common use of a descriptive relative clause introduced by als when ..."
2. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1891)
"It may be worth while pointing out the parallel between this extension of the
relative clause and the development which has been ..."
3. Ethiopic Grammar by August Dillmann, Carl Bezold, James A. Crichton (1907)
"The position of the words in the relative clause does not °a Relative*1 differ
essentially from the arrangement in the ordinary sentence, clause. ..."
4. A Greek Grammar for Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1920)
"Appositives to tint antecedent may be drawn into the relative, clause as the
nearest construction or for the sake of emphasis. ..."
5. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"It is easy to see that a relative clause is an adjunct, because we can often
substitute an adjunct-word—generally a participle (adjective-verbal)— for the ..."
6. A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1859)
"... and it sometimes is expressed twice in Latin : this, however, is but seldom
the case, and the antecedent is generally omitted in the relative clause. ..."
7. A Sanskrit Primer: Based on the Leitfaden Für Den Elementar-cursus Des by Edward Delavan Perry, Georg Bühler (1913)
"The Sanskrit often puts the relative clause before the antecedent clause, ...
In translating into Sanskrit, a relative clause is to be placed either before ..."
8. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"A subordinate relative clause may precede the main clause or be ... The relative
clause is often made emphatic by placing after it the main clause with the ..."
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