contentive

[kuhn-ten-tiv]

noun Linguistics.

a content word or a morpheme that is the root of a content word. Compare functor (def. 2).

Origin:
content¹ + -ive

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Contentive is always a great word to know.

So is complement clause. Does it mean:

a sentence in which another sentence is embedded: In 'The man who called is waiting,' 'The man is waiting' is a matrix sentence

a subordinate clause that functions as the subject, direct object, or prepositional object of a verb

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