clause

Clause

Clause is on the Academic Word List.

Noun[change]

A clause with NP (John) as subject and VP (hit the ball) as predicate

A clause is a section in a contract or other legal document.
The author's contract contained a clause giving him creative control over the films.
(grammar) A clause is a group of words that usually includes a subject and a predicate. In English, the subject usually comes before the predicate.
The last clause in the sentence is hard to understand without knowing some background.

Grammar (edit)
parts of speech	noun - verb - adjective - adnoun - adverb - determinative/determiner - article - participle - pronoun - conjunction - preposition - interjection
grammatical functions	head - subject - predicate - object - complement - modifier - adjunct - determiner/specifier
clauses	independent clause - dependent clause - subordinate clause - relative clause