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Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements
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Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements
Adjective Clauses
Restrictive Element
What are they?
Adjective Phrases
- Restrictive elements contain essential information to sentences, and if removed from a sentence, the meaning becomes limited
- Cannot be set off by commas
- Example: The girl needs a gluten-free pizza.
- An adjective clause is used to modify a noun or a pronoun in the main clause
- Nonrestrictive clauses are set off by commas.
- Example: Proffesor Umbridge's office, which is located in Hogwarts, was decorated in pink.
- Restrictive clauses are not set off by commas.
- Kristen's turtle, that is old, has a hard time moving.
- Word groups that describe nouns or pronouns are either restrictive or nonrestrictive
- Word groups such as: adjective clauses, adjective phrases, and appositives
- Nonrestrictive phrases are set off by commas.
- The candy cane, with its minty flavor, tasted good.
- Restricted phrases aren't set off by commas.
- The room was covered in paintings, dating back to the 1500's.
Appositives
Sources:
Nonrestrictive
- Appositives are nouns that are set off by other nouns.
- Nonrestrictive appositives are set off by commas.
- Example: Wes Anderson's most successful film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, won the Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture.
- Restrictive appositives aren't set off by commas.
- Example: The song, "Hey there Delilah," was played on the guitar.
- Nonrestrictive elements describe a noun or pronoun whose meaning has already been clearly defined
- It contains nonessential information, so it can be set off by commas
- If removed from a sentence, the meaning doesn't change very much
- Example: For school the students need graphing calculators, which are quite expensive.
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