restrictive clause technical
restrictive relative clause technical

The town's insistence on this restrictive clause amounts to discrimination.

"That" however, as near exclusively restricted to restrictive clauses, remains current.

The national federation allows individual states to interpret the restrictive clause in the regulation.

Although restrictive clauses were ruled unconstitutional in 1948, many deeds continued to include them.

Gang for permitting which to lead a restrictive clause; go for that.

The endowment's general counsel then sent as letter to the dance company explaining that the restrictive clause still applied.

By 1950, the restrictive clause in the fraternity's constitution was beginning to stir controversy on some college campuses.

I suggest you refresh your understanding of the difference between a restrictive clause and a non-restrictive one.

However, many of these criticisms simply fail to notice that Coleridge's original statement came in a restrictive clause.

Which can be used with restrictive clauses.

Therefore, what follows is a restrictive clause.

A restrictive clause will only be upheld if it is 'reasonable' from everyone's viewpoint.

(In restrictive clauses, you may use either, but "that" is more common.)

For more information see restrictive clause and the relevant subsection of relative clause.

"I ask only the usual restrictive clauses.

A restrictive clause is providing information which helps narrow down or identify the subject (not just any house, but the house that Jack built).

The commission began an inquiry into whether a restrictive clause in Microsoft's contracts with computer equipment makers violated antitrust laws.

Other experts said there was little information and few methods to determine how often information was not reported because of restrictive clauses in contracts.

Because it restricts the meaning of "vegetable", this adjective clause is called a restrictive clause.

Not all restrictive clauses are appositives.

The way the sentence should be read, "that.Ozzfest 2006" is a restrictive clause that modifies "bands."

Apparently, France is calling for restrictive clauses, prohibiting competition between countries in order to attract investments by lowering social standards and weakening environmental rules.

Relative pronouns are often dropped in short restrictive clauses: That's the man [whom] I saw.

These limitations in the software were due to a restrictive clause in an agreement between the author and Xing Technology.

As a result, we cannot speak of a legal conception of limited liability, but only of restrictive clauses like those mentioned above, which protected investors.

Restrictive relative clauses are linked to the word that proceeds it.

It is an alternative to that, which or who(m) in a restrictive relative clause:

The most notable is the relative pronoun that, which can only be used with a restrictive relative clause.

A controversial rule in English recommends favoring "that" over "which" in restrictive relative clauses.

Whether to use which instead of that in a restrictive relative clause - e.g., "This is the tree which I saw."

A hypercorrection may result when a spell checker suggests the addition of a comma before "which" in a restrictive relative clause.

It conveys this very different meaning by providing a restrictive relative clause and only one intonation curve, and no commas normally.

The distinction between the relative pronouns that and which to introduce restrictive relative clauses with non-human antecedents is a frequent point of dispute.

It's wholly possible - it has been done for centuries - to write excellent, clear, lucid, beautiful English without banning 'which' from introducing restrictive relative clauses.

The second expression refers not to a single builder but to a certain category of builders who meet a certain qualification: the one explained by the restrictive relative clause.

"in general, 'that' is usually used only with restrictive relative clauses, while "which' is used with both restrictive and non-restrictive clauses"

Restrictive relative clauses are also called integrated relative clauses, defining relative clauses, or identifying relative clauses.

In restrictive relative clauses, when not preceded by a preposition, both who(m) and which can be replaced by that, or (if not the subject of the clause) by zero.

Another difference in English is that only restrictive relative clauses may be introduced with that or use the "zero" relative pronoun (see English relative clauses for details).

Differences between that and the other basic relative pronouns (which, who) include the restriction of that to restrictive relative clauses, and the impossibility of preceding it with a preposition.

The word that as a relative pronoun is normally found only in restrictive relative clauses (unlike which and who, which can be used in both restrictive and unrestrictive clauses).

This (who lives in this house) is a restrictive relative clause, modifying the meaning of man, and essential to the sentence (if the clause were omitted, it would no longer be known which man is being referred to).

Which is better for restrictive relative clauses when there are two such clauses, especially in definitions: A thermometer is an instrument which/that is used to measure temperture, and which (not that) typically) usually contains mercury.

In a sentence like (24), the subject phrase includes a restrictive relative clause, a definite article which can rest on that clause, and an intensifier of the article; everything slots nicely into place and we get a naturally coherent sentence.

In the positions where that can be used as relative pronoun (namely in restrictive relative clauses without a fronted preposition), provided it is not the subject of the relative clause, it is also possible to omit the relative pronoun entirely.

Which cannot correctly be replaced by that in a restrictive relative clause when the relative pronoun is the object of a non-stranded preposition; in this case which is used, as in "We admired the skill with which she handled the situation."

The antecedents of restrictive relative clauses are marked with the restrictive morpheme -i, which resembles the indefinite morpheme in form alone, e.g. ezgit dukkāni ke həzitu awwál 'I went to the places which I saw before.'

When a speaker takes the trouble to use a restrictive relative clause in a noun phrase equipped with a definite article but no attributive adjective, it will naturally be presumed that it is this clause which makes recognition possible; there is no need for such an assumption when the clause is non-restrictive.

The Classical Mandaic relative pronoun '- has not survived, having been replaced by illi, an Arabic loan that introduces non-restrictive relative clauses, and ke, a Persian loan that introduces restrictive relative clauses, both of which appear immediately following the antecedent of the clause.