In order to account for a group of clause patterns which are closely related to the existential, but which are not its typical members, we put forward a new term, event-existential, in contrast to thing-existential.
They can be used to join 2 or more sentences or clauses (a clause is a group of words which contains a subject and a verb).
On the 7th of February, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by a group of NGOs to annul the clause in the law that allows security services such as the Shin Bet to use interrogation practices that violate human rights.
The essential virtue of the Magna Carta, which has made it comparable in historical importance to the Twelve Tables of ancient Rome, lies not in any individual clause or group of clauses but in the solemn circumstances of its first granting and the comprehensive nature of that grant.
A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb.
A clause is a group of words that contain a subject and a verb - for example: She ate.
The point of the sentence is to place this show in a group of a few shows, and the relative clause describes what those shows (plural) have in common.
Its linchpin is a contingent repurchase facility in which the Argentine central bank has the option to sell certain domestic assets valued at about $7 billion in exchange for greenbacks to a group of international banks subject to a repurchase clause.
Since July this year, a group of experts has been reviewing the peace agreement to figure out which clauses to integrate into the Malian constitution.
Tottenham are among a group of Premier League clubs that would consider triggering Loic Remy's £8m escape clause if QPR are relegated.
Fries (1992) adapted the t-unit (an independent clause and its accompanying dependent clauses) to identify the N-Rheme – the final group of an independent clause in a clause complex – which he presumed to be the most likely place to find New information and the equivalent of the tonic foot in spoken English.
