nonrestrictive clause
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nounDefinition of NONRESTRICTIVE CLAUSE
: 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”)
First Known Use of NONRESTRICTIVE CLAUSE
1916
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