restrictive clause

noun

, Grammar.

a relative clause that identifies the antecedent and that is usually not set off by commas in English. In The year that just ended was bad for crops, the clause that just ended is a restrictive clause.

First recorded in 1900–05

A restrictive clause is one, therefore, that is needed to make the meaning of the sentence clear.

To distinguish an appositive clause from a restrictive clause, the former is called a non-restrictive clause.

Here he read the restrictive clause in the constitution; and then observed, that he saw no pass over this limit.

A clause introduced by that is usually a restrictive clause.

But the restrictive clause in the territorial bills satisfied the radical Southerners as little as it pleased Douglas.

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