relative clause
noun [C]Definition
› a part of a sentence that is used to describe the noun which comes just before it. In the sentence, 'The woman who I saw yesterday wasn't his wife.', 'who I saw yesterday' is a relative clause.
(Definition of relative clause noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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