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Related topics: Grammarˌrelative ˈclause ●●○ noun [countable] technicalSLG a part of a sentence that has a verb in it, and is joined to the rest of the sentence by ‘who’, ‘which’, ‘where’ etc, for example the phrase ‘who lives next door’ in the sentence ‘The man who lives next door is a doctor.’ 关系从句〔如在 The man who lives next door is a doctor一句中,who lives next door 是关系从句〕Examples from the Corpusrelative clause• A relative clause counts as dependent whereas an adjective modifying a noun clearly does not.• The most notable is the relative pronoun that, which can only be used with a restrictive relative clause.ˌrelative ˈclause nounChineseSyllable a sentence has of that a part Corpus |