clause – English noun declension

English noun forms of clause

Noun: clause
Singularclause
Pluralclauses

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonyms: sentential, sentence
  • However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following:
  • (43) [Your sister could go to College], but [would she get a degree?]
  • The second (italicised) conjunct is a Clause containing an inverted Auxiliary, would. Given our earlier assumptions that inverted Auxiliaries are in C, and that C is a constituent of S-bar, it follows that the italicised Clause in (43) must be an S-bar. But our familiar constraint on Coordination tells us that only constituents belonging to the same Category can be conjoined. Since the second Clause in (43) is clearly an S-bar, then it follows that the first Clause must also be an S-bar — one in which the C(omplementiser) position has been left empty. [1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 300:]
  • Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted. [1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:]

Etymology

From Middle English clause, claus, borrowed from Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa (Latin diminutive clausula (“close, end; a clause, close of a period”)), from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere (“to shut, close”). See close, its doublet. See: Middle English Nouns 'clause', Latin Nouns 'clausus'.

Verbs referencing "clause"

Finnish Nouns klausuuli.