0 a part of a sentence having its own subject and predicate, eg either of the two parts of this sentence -- mệnh đề
The sentence ‘Mary has a friend who is rich’ contains a main clause and a subordinate (relative) clause.
1 a paragraph in a contract, will, or act of parliament -- điều khoản
They insisted on adding a new clause to the contract.
A further difference between extraposed clauses and object clauses can be detected in their occurrence in different text types.
Comparison with object clauses in this respect is not possible, as there is no systematic analysis of their information status to date.
Whereas the particle tended to follow the verb in main clauses, it tended to precede the verb in subordinate clauses.
Expressing basic constituent relations in single clauses is fairly straightforward since any consistently used word order can function as a grammatical device.
In effect, coordinate clauses are simply two sentences connected by a conjunction.
However, clauses regarding research on human embryos were not specifically described.
The second clause's flexibility will allow for cases that are often deemed important,18 such as mild hypertension.
First-told stories also contained fewer categories of aspect, and in three out of four cases they had fewer clauses marked with extended aspectual categories.
