relative clause
/ˈrel·ə·t̬ɪv ˈklɔz/ n [C]Definition
› grammar a clause in a sentence that cannot exist independently, begins with a relative pronoun, and describes a noun that comes before it: In the sentence "The movie that we saw was very good," "that we saw" is a relative clause.
(Definition of relative clause n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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