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Clauses may perform as adjectives, adverbs, and nouns.

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Step-by-step explanation:

A clause is a part of the sentence that contains a verb. A typical clause consists of subject + predicate, the latter typically a verb phrase, a verb with any objects and other modifiers. However, the subject is sometimes not said or explicit, often the case in null-subject languages if the subject is retrievable from context, but it sometimes also occurs in other languages such as English (as in imperative sentences and non-finite clauses).

We have some kind of clauses:

SV clauses

Subject+verb. They are usually declarative.

Verb first clauses They can express a yes/no question via subject–auxiliary inversion, they express a condition as an embedded clause or they express a command via imperative mood.

Wh clauses

They always contain a wh-word. Wh-words often serve to help express a constituent question.

Relative clauses

They can be standard SV-clauses if they are introduced by that or lack a relative pronoun entirely, or they can be wh-clauses if they are introduced by a wh-word that serves as a relative pronoun.

Argument clauses

Argument clauses can appear as subjects, as objects, and as obliques.

Adjunct clauses

Adjunct clauses are embedded clauses that modify an entire predicate-argument structure.

Predicative clauses

An embedded clause can also function as a predicative expression.

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