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NOUN CLAUSE

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | | Â© Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

NOUN CLAUSE. See RELATIVE CLAUSE.

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