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Restrictive curves contain limited sight distance and/or small radii that restrict travel speed relative to the speed limit, while non-restrictive curves have sufficient sight distance and greater radii that do not restrict travel speed.
Non-restrictive clauses: which, comma (both essential).
"Which John built" is non-restrictive.
It's gone from a restrictive to a non-restrictive abuse-handle.
Crystal identifies a non-restrictive list of 11 distinct non-specialist functions for the exclamation mark.
They don't even want to know what the distinction between a restrictive and a non-restrictive clause might be.
Which is used more often with non-restrictive clauses, and that is only used for restrictive clauses.
In contrast, in a non-restrictive design all flow rates are optimised.
A word about relative clauses: restrictive relative clauses (also known as defining, best thought of as giving essential information by narrowing it down) are not enclosed by commas, whereas non-restrictive relative clauses (non-defining, giving non-essential information) are.
Don't be alarmed by the unhelpful terms, but restrictive relative clauses (also known as defining, best thought of as giving essential information by narrowing it down) are not enclosed by commas, whereas non-restrictive relative clauses (non-defining, giving non-essential information) are.
In the three examples, "which John built", "which I read every day" and "which I grew from seed" are all non-restrictive.
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