clause
noun
a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
clausal
-
a word derived from
clause.
Example Sentences
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It doesn’t justify his bullying repetitions, manipulative cues, rhetorical gaslighting, clausal manspreading, and bogus authority markers.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2016
To start with, the fact that like is a preposition, which typically takes a noun phrase complement, does not mean that it may not take a clausal complement as well.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
