Sentence examples for preceding that clause from inspiring English sources

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For example, in the context of a relative clause (signaled by a noun preceding that clause), a transitive verb may well lack an NP complement ( "I collected the money he threw down on the table")., and as a result, words following the verb may be tagged incorrectly (down as a noun).

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The alleged conduct preceded that change.

That clause was added in September 2010.

That clause reportedly upset the Lindros family.

That clause is meant to be prohibitive.

One trouble with the famous "which clause" is that it probably wasn't intended to be a which clause atall, it was intended to be a that clause.

But if so, why did America want that clause?

Some civil rights lawyers find that clause worrisome.

I wish I had that clause.

And that clause needs a subject.

Nonfinite verbs do not carry g-n-p markers, and they head subordinate clauses that precede the main clause in a complex sentence.

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