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'Clause' can be defined as a group of words containing at least one subject and one verb. One clause can simply be a sentence or one or more clauses are combined to form a sentence. For example, ''I went to school.'' is a clause: ''I'' is a subject and ''went'' is a verb. The clause is a sentence as well. In a sentence such as ''I know that he went to school.'' there are two clauses: one is ''I know that he went to school'' and the other is ''that he went to school''. The former and the latter have ''I''/''know'' and ''he''/''went'' as their subject/verb, respectively. The former clause (i.e.,''I know that he went to school'') is called a main clause; on the contrary, the latter (i.e., ''that he went to school'') is called an [[Embedded Clause (definition)|embedded clause]].
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A clause is a collection of phrases, such that there is a [[Predicate (definition)|predicate]] (typically a verb) and a number of [[Argument (definition)|arguments]]. The simplest kind of clause is a sentence such as ''I left'' or ''I saw Sarah''. Clauses can be [[Embedded Clause (definition)|embedded]], as in ''I thought that '''Bill ate the pizza'''''. Clauses can be tensed or [[Finite (definition)|finite]] (e.g. ''John left'') or [[Non-Finite (definition)|non-finite]] (e.g. ''I want '''John to leave''''').
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
[[Embedded Clause (definition)|embedded clause]]
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*[[Embedded Clause (definition)|embedded clause]]
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*[[Non-Finite (definition)|non-finite]]
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*[[Finite (definition)|finite]]  
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause
 
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause
 
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*http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAClause.htm
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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*Crystal, D. (2008) ''Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics''. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
  
 
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[[Category:Technical Definitions]]
 
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Latest revision as of 11:06, 4 June 2012

A clause is a collection of phrases, such that there is a predicate (typically a verb) and a number of arguments. The simplest kind of clause is a sentence such as I left or I saw Sarah. Clauses can be embedded, as in I thought that Bill ate the pizza. Clauses can be tensed or finite (e.g. John left) or non-finite (e.g. I want John to leave).

See Also

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References

  • Crystal, D. (2008) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.