In a sentence
Six example sentences with clause, each labelled with its topic.
Her editor cut the trailing clause, and the sentence ended on the verb instead of drifting into another subject.
Literature
The parser breaks each sentence into parts and flags any clause whose subject and verb disagree in number.
Technology
Logicians rewrite ordinary prose so that every clause has one subject and one predicate, making hidden claims easier to test.
Philosophy
By age three most children can produce a complete clause, joining a subject and a verb in the right order.
Psychology
The speechwriter cut every subordinate clause from the closing line so the crowd could chant it back.
Politics
The style guide limits each sentence in a customer email to one clause, so nobody has to reread a refund notice.
Business
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Found in these word lists
Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- Business Word List (part 2)
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
Each source is a published word list that contains clause. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.