文法裡的子句
文法把同一個「一段自成一塊」的想法用在句子上：有主詞也有動詞，可以單獨看懂，但它只是長句裡的一部分。
grammatical clause · noun · B2
a group of words that has a subject and a verb and that forms part of a longer sentence.
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Picture a long document broken into numbered blocks, each one dealing with a single point so you can find it and argue about it on its own. A clause is one of those blocks — and grammar borrows the word for the same idea: one complete unit inside a longer sentence.
可以想成：一份很長的文件被切成一段一段、編上號碼，每一段只講一件事，方便你單獨找出來、單獨討論。clause 就是其…更多收起
可以想成：一份很長的文件被切成一段一段、編上號碼，每一段只講一件事，方便你單獨找出來、單獨討論。clause 就是其中一段。文法把同一個想法借了過去：句子裡自成一個單位的那一小塊。From the picture
Also in this word
contract clause · noun · B2
a part of a written law, contract, or agreement that deals with one particular point.
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Clausename
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A surname.
clausenoun/klɔːz/
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance.
- Near-synonyms: sentential, sentence
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is dependent (subordinate). (Independent clauses can be sentences; they can also be part of a sentence. Dependent clauses can only be part of a 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.
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lawA distinct part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
- 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.
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computingdatabasesengineeringA constituent (component) of a statement or query.
clauseverb/klɔːz/
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economicssciencesshippingTo amend (a bill of lading or similar document).
- The question of clausing the bills of lading, so as to avoid "dirtying", which impairs its negotiability, may also be looked into
- Any attempt to clause a Bill of Lading will be strenuously resisted by shippers, and they will obtain clean bills in the usual ways
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。