nominal relative clause
Grammar
noun
A nominal clause introduced by a relative word, but containing the antecedent of the relative within itself, and functioning in a way similar to a noun phrase.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Randolph Quirk (b. 1920), linguist.
- non-hostile
- non-human
- noni
- nonic
- nonideal
- nonideality
- non-identical
- nonidentity
- noni juice
- nonillion
- nonillionth
- non-immune
- non-impact
- non-import
- non-importation
- non-importing
- non-inclusion
- noninclusive
- non-increasing
- non-inductive
- non-industrial
- non-inert
- non-infectious
- non-infective
- non-inflammability