relative clause
a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
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How to use relative clause in a sentence
There are two sets of forms according as to whether the verb occurs in a relative clause or not.
The sentence makes complete sense without the relative clause.
Business English | Rose BuhligTed Radford, the station overseer, was a personage not to be dismissed in a relative clause.
Stingaree | E. W. (Ernest William) Hornungrelative clause—A clause joined to the rest of the sentence by a relative pronoun.
Punctuation | Frederick W. HamiltonThe relative that is often omitted by Chaucer before a relative clause, as, again, in l. 4365.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer
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