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  2. Scope clause - Wikipedia

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    The scope clause's goal is to protect the union pilots' jobs at the major airline from being outsourced by limiting the regional airlines' passenger capacity. [1] These clauses exist primarily in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Scope clauses are supported as a means of saving union jobs.

  3. The Nagasaki Spirit - Wikipedia

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    The Nagasaki Spirit [1997] [1] [2] is an English admiralty law case on marine salvage and on the provisions of Article 13 and 14 of the 1989 Salvage Convention.. The case identified problems with the drafting of the convention, a response to which was the 2000 SCOPIC codicil which may be attached to the Lloyd's Open Form ("LOF") to vary the terms of the salvage reward.

  4. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    The adverbial clause describes when and where the action of the main clause, I had only two things on my mind, took place. A relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or noun phrase in the independent clause. In other words, the relative clause functions similar to an adjective. Let him who has been deceived complain.

  5. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Anadiplosis – repeating the last word of one clause or phrase to begin the next. Analogy – the use of a similar or parallel case or example to reason or argue a point. Anaphora – a succession of sentences beginning with the same word or group of words. Anastrophe – inversion of the natural word order.

  6. English clause syntax - Wikipedia

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    A clause is often said to be the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition. [1] But this semantic idea of a clause leaves out much of English clause syntax. For example, clauses can be questions, [2]: 161 but questions are not propositions. [3] A syntactic description of an English clause is that it is a subject and a ...

  7. Center embedding - Wikipedia

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    Subordinators or relative pronouns indicate which type of subclause is being used. A center embedding occurs when words in a superordinate clause occur on both the left and the right of a subclause. Iterated center embedding of the same type of clause is called self-embedding.

  8. Cleft sentence - Wikipedia

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    While most would agree that the cleft clause in wh-clefts can be analysed as some kind of relative clause (free or fused or headless), there is disagreement as to the exact nature of the relative. Traditionally, the wh-word in a cleft such as What you need is a good holiday , pertaining to the relative What you need , is understood to be the ...

  9. T-unit - Wikipedia

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    It is defined as the "shortest grammatically allowable sentences into which (writing can be split) or minimally terminable unit." Often, but not always, a T-unit is a sentence . More technically, a T-unit is a dominant clause and its dependent clauses: as Hunt said: it is "one main clause with all subordinate clauses attached to it" (Hunt 1965:20).