restrictive clause
restrictive clause
nounDefinition of RESTRICTIVE CLAUSE
: a descriptive clause that is essential to the definiteness of the word it modifies (as that you ordered in “the book that you ordered is out of print”)
First Known Use of RESTRICTIVE CLAUSE
circa 1895
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