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	Defining and non-defining relative clauses. Fowler, H. W. 1908. The King's English
		The function of a defining relative clause is to limit the application of the antecedent; where that is already precise, a defining clause is not wanted.
		This fact, that the removal of a defining clause destroys the meaning of the antecedent, supplies an infallible test for distinguishing between the defining and the non-defining clause: the latter can always, the former never, be detached without disturbing the truth of the main predication.
		A non-defining clause gives independent comment, description, explanation, anything but limitation of the antecedent; it can always be rewritten either as a parenthesis or as a separate sentence, and this is true, however essential the clause may be to the point of the main statement.
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	The Subordinate Clause
		The relative clause who was sniffing around the picnic tables clarifies the animal that we mean.
		The information in the relative clause is no longer as important, and the clause becomes nonessential.
		The information in the relative clause is no longer important and needs to be separated from the main clause with a comma.
	www.chompchomp.com /terms/subordinateclause.htm (778 words)

	Relative clause - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In other languages, relative clauses may be marked in different ways: they may be introduced by a special class of conjunctions called relativizers; the main verb of the relative clause may appear in a special morphological variant; or a relative clause may be indicated by word order alone.
		In Georgian, relative clauses are generally marked both with a particle outside the clause, which is declined to indicate the relative clause's role within the larger sentence, and with a relative pronoun, which is declined to indicate its own role within the relative clause.
		Relative pronouns, like other pronouns in Latin, agree with their antecedents in gender and number, but not in case: a relative pronoun's case reflects its role in the relative clause it introduces, while its antecedent's case reflects the antecedent's role in the clause that contains the relative clause.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Relative_clause (2348 words)

	MoodsRelativeClauses
		It should be observed that the distinction between the definite and the indefinite relative clause cannot be drawn simply by reference to the relative pronoun employed, or to the word which stands as the antecedent of the relative.
		A definite relative clause may be introduced by an indefinite relative pronoun or may have an indefinite pronoun as its antecedent.
		A clause and its antecedent are made definite by the reference of the clause to a definite and actual event; they are made indefinite by the reference of the clause to a supposed event or instance.
	www.dabar.org /BurtonMoodsTenses/MoodsRelativeClauses.html (553 words)

	grammarguide.html
		A relative clause (also known as an adjectival clause) is a clause; that is, it is a stucture that can be independent or dependet, but always has a subject and a predicate.
		A restrictive relative clause is usually essential to the meaning of the antecedent and cannot be dropped.
		Relative clauses are used primarily in quite the same way as adjectives are used.
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	Relative Clauses
		A relative clause is a subordinate clause which relates or refers back to a word in the clause before it.
		In Latin, the case of the relative pronoun is determined by its function in the relative clause.
		Within the relative clause, "cuius" is a possessive modifier connecting Circe with her power, and so it is in the genitive case.
	www.southwestern.edu /~carlg/Latin_Web/relativeclauses.html (623 words)

	Relative Clauses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Relative clauses are a type of clause and so must have a complete skeleton.
		The relative pronoun qui is masculine and singular because Hector, the noun the relative clause modifies, is masculine and singular.
		Qui is nominative because it is the subject of the relative clause.
	www.personal.kent.edu /~bkharvey/latin/clauses/depadjrl.htm (264 words)

	Clauses: the Essential Building-Blocks
		Relative clauses are dependent clauses introduced by a Relative Pronoun (that, which, whichever, who, whoever, whom, whomever, whose, and of which).
		In a relative clause, the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb (remember that all clauses contain a subject-verb relationship) and refers to (relates to) something preceding the clause.
		Elliptical Clauses are grammatically incomplete in the sense that they are missing either the relative pronoun (dependent word) that normally introduces such a clause or something from the predicate in the second part of a comparison.
	grammar.ccc.commnet.edu /grammar/clauses.htm (1914 words)

	Relative clauses
		Clauses are usually thought of as containing two basic constituents: a subject (a noun phrase) and a predicate (a verb phrase plus what other things the particular verb type requires).
		Relative pronouns are those pronouns that are used in relative clauses.
		Notice that if the relative clauses in the first three examples are erased, we do not know which student is being referred to; if the relative clause in the last example is erased, we can still point to the teacher.
	www.csuchico.edu /~gt18/222/RelativeClauses.html (1640 words)

	French Grammar Exercises
		The relative clause generally qualifies or explains a noun in the main clause that is its referent or antecedent.
		The relative pronoun then stands for this noun within the relative clause in which it can be a subject, a direct object, or the object of a preposition.
		The relative pronoun que is used when it is the direct object of its clause.
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	relative clause
		relative clause (relativsetning): a subordinate clause introduced by one of the relative pronouns, or by the relative determiner whose.
		The typical syntactic function of relative clauses is adjectival, viz.
		The relative clauses thus mainly belong at phrase level, as parts of noun phrases.
	www.novalearn.com /grammar-glossary/relative-clause.htm (85 words)

	Sentence Structure: Relative Clauses
		Relative clauses are one kind of dependent clause, introduced by a relative pronoun that refers to the main noun the clause depends upon.
		Since a relative clause is a dependent clause, the sentence it appears in must still have a main subject and a main verb besides the ones in the relative clause.
		When the relative clause comes between the main noun and verb of a sentence, it is easy to forget to finish the main clause by adding a main verb after using a relative clause.
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	Relative Clauses
		Avoiding the use of relative clauses in your writing will limit you to simple structures which are unlikely to be adequate to express complex ideas and which will detract from the overall style of your writing.
		However, when the relative noun is not the subject of the relative clause, the pronoun is normally omitted.
		A clause with a deleted relative pronoun is known as a ‘contact’ clause.
	elc.polyu.edu.hk /CILL/eap/relativeclauses.htm (788 words)

	The Relative Clause
		A relative clause does not express a complete thought, so it cannot stand alone as a sentence.
		For each sentence, you will have to decide if the relative clause is essential or nonessential and then use commas accordingly.
		A relative clause is essential when you need the information it provides.
	www.chompchomp.com /terms/relativeclause.htm (328 words)

	Relative Clauses
		Relative clauses are subordinate clauses that attach to nouns.
		The relative pronoun serves two functions--it is a subordinating conjunction and it is a part of the syntax of the clause.
		The relative pronoun means the same thing as the noun that the clause is attached to; the relative pronoun has a grammatical role that combines being a connector with a role in the syntax of its clause.
	www2.gsu.edu /~eslhpb/grammar/lecture_11/relative.html (1833 words)

	German_new
		Relative clauses are clauses, not phrases: they are like sentences, in that they have at a minimum a verb and one other element, potentially many more elements.
		Relative clauses cannot stand alone; they are subordinated to a larger structure, and serve as modifiers.
		The gender and number of the relative pronoun are determined by its antecedent in the main clause; the case is determined by the pronoun’s function in the relative clause.
	camden-www.rutgers.edu /dept-pages/german/relatives102.html (714 words)

	Kamakawi Relative Clauses
		Relative clauses are a thing of beauty, if looked at in the right light.
		Relative clauses are a type of subordinate clause.
		Logically the subject status marker used in a relative clause could never be a "different subject" marker (i.e., a or ka), because it has to modify a noun in the matrix clause, and that noun in the matrix clause has to be in the matrix clause.
	dedalvs.free.fr /kamakawi/rclauses.html (3414 words)

	German Relative Clauses
		A relative clause is one sentence "plugged into" another which gives further information about a preceding noun or pronoun (relative clauses underlined in examples).
		Relative clauses follow directly after the noun they modify, but if only a word or two (typically verb forms) remains at the end of the clause, it is usually finished off before the relative clause begins:
		The function of the pronoun in the relative clause determines its case.
	www.usna.edu /LangStudy/relclaus.html (385 words)

	Supporting English Acquisition
		In grammatical terms, the noun phrase modified by the relative clause is sometimes called “the head noun phrase” or “the head” of the relative clause.
		And the targeted position within the relative clause (the subject position or the gap) is called the relativized position.” Using these terms will facilitate the discussion of research associated with the acquisition of English relative clauses.
		For example, is the head noun phrase the subject or the object within the main clause, and is the relativized position the subject or the object within the relative clause.
	www.rit.edu /~seawww/relativeclausepages/rcresearchfindings.html (517 words)

	relative clauses
		Relative clauses are embedded within a main sentence.
		In the example above, the noun in the main sentence that is described by the relative clause, is red.
		The relative clause is separated from the main sentence by a comma (,).
	www.deafed.net /PublishedDocs/sub/rclause.htm (1349 words)

	Relatives and Non-Relatives
		Recognizing relative clauses, would be easier if it were not for two things: (1) not all relative clauses are nestled neatly into the postmodifying slot after a noun phrase, and (2) some things which are not relative clauses can look at first glance as if they were.
		When that-clauses occur in the middle of a clause, they are usually complements of an adjective (My aunt, afraid that robbers will break into her house, recently purchases an AK-47) or a noun phrase (The idea that I would come to your party is laughable).
		The nominal relatives normally appear as complements of verbs or prepositions, so the only serious problem posed by these possibilities is distinguishing between relative clauses with that which modify noun phrases and that-clauses serving as the complements of nouns; the same principles apply as for such cases occurring earlier in the clause.
	uwp.edu /~canary/relatives-middle.html (1414 words)

	Supporting English Acquisition
		Deaf students are more successful on sentences in which a relative clause follows a main clause object rather than one that interrupts the main clause subject and verb.
		The use of English relative clauses in instructional materials should be kept to a minimum.
		When relative clauses are used, the "easier" relative clause structures described in the research summary should be chosen.
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	RELATIVE PRONOUNS I & II
		NOTE1: an English relative clause, as in the translation of exercise number 2 above, may end with a preposition like "from" ("that all the workers profit from"), whereas a French sentence may not.
		If the object possessed is the subject of the verb in the subordinate clause, the name of this object immediately follows "dont," as it follows "whose" in English.
		If the antecedent noun (in the main clause) is subject of the verb in the dependent clause, use the relative pronoun "qui" to link the two clauses.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /jhreid/grammar/relative_pronouns_i__ii.htm (739 words)

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		Relative clauses are another method for combining ideas into good sentences.
		Example: I lost the necklace main John gave me that or which.clause If the relative pronoun is not already at the front of the clause, then move the relative pronoun to the front of the clause.
		Example: I lost the necklace that John gave me. I do not need commas around this relative clause, and I should not use which because this clause is a restrictive clause that helps identify the lost necklace.
	www.ou.edu /faculty/R/Judith.R.Reynolds-2/Relclauses.doc (370 words)

	Need some help with relative clause - Englishpage.com Forums
		In most the of the relative clauses, what I see is the relative pronoun just modifies the subject, object or the whole sentence.
		The clause isn't adjectivial or adverbial, it is simply describing the whole of the main clause: "Few ships were in the area".
		In these sentence modifying clauses, 'which' isn't modifying "the whole preceding clause", 'which' is being used to join a clause to the main sentence and this whole clause makes a comment upon the whole preceding clause.
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