How To Use Nonrestrictive clause In A Sentence
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You use which in nonrestrictive clauses, and if you eliminate a nonrestrictive clause, the meaning of the remaining part of the sentence will be the same as it was before.
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You can think of a nonrestrictive clause as simply additional information.
Grammar Girl: Which Versus That « Write Anything
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the nonrestrictive clause in `I always buy his books, which have influenced me greatly,' refers to his books generally and adds an additional fact about them
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At the same time, the instruction to put a comma before a nonrestrictive clause is not unique to Strunk & White but can be found in many writing texts.
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A nonrestrictive clause is something that can be left off without changing the meaning of the sentence.
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