[Grammar] clausal object extraposition
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The abstruse title had me consulting OneLook.com.
- extraposition
- (transformational grammar) a rule that moves embedded clauses out to the end of the main clause, converting, for example, A man who will help has just arrived into A man has just arrived who will help
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