finite clause
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This idiom, analogous to the “accusative with the infinitive” of Latin, is found down to the latest period of Cornish literature, though not to the complete exclusion of a finite clause beginning with that.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
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