relative clauses

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of relative clause.
  relative clause

  noun

  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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relative clauses

The choice between "that" and "which", according to the rule, is simple: nonrestrictive relative clauses take "which"; restrictive relative clauses take "that".

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2014

Though "whom" is pompous in short questions and relative clauses, it is a natural choice in certain other circumstances, even in informal speech and writing.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2014

His characters are endlessly reflective and articulate, spitting out litanies of adjectives, geysers of abstract nouns, chemical chains of relative clauses.

From Time Magazine Archive

The same rule creates relative clauses that begin with a preposition and a wh-word such as the better with which to see you or It’s you of whom she’s thinking.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The choice between that and which, according to the rule, is simple: nonrestrictive relative clauses take which; restrictive relative clauses take that.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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