What Is a Substantive Clause

A clause used as a noun is called a substantive clause. A substantive clause may be used as the subject or object of a verb, as an appositive, or as a predicate nominative or accusative. Note 1— Many ideas which in English take the form of an abstract noun may be rendered by a substantive clause in Latin.

How many types of substantive subordinate clauses are there?

There are three different kinds of subordinate clauses: adverb clauses, adjective clauses, and noun clauses. Each of these clauses are introduced by certain words.

What are relative clauses?

What is a relative clause? A relative clause is one kind of dependent clause. It has a subject and verb, but can’t stand alone as a sentence. It is sometimes called an “adjective clause” because it functions like an adjective—it gives more information about a noun.