ohmyrichard
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- Chinese
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"But I vaguely remember I have read sentences in which a nonrestrictive relative clause is led by the relative pronoun "that"."
Ohmyrichard, can you produce some of them?
When I have keyed in "nonrestrictive that" in the google search box, I get "About 3,050 results". If you give it a try, you will get the same number of search results. If you like, please take a look at one of them: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/that-elusive-non-restrictive-that/.
This is something controversial, but I remember that I have encountered "nonrestrictive that" in my reading, most probably in example sentences in my Oxford dictionary.