317i Punctuation and intonation of relative clauses
Defining relative and defining non-finite clauses do not add to or amplify a
statement. They postmodify a noun and specify or define properties associated
with the noun. Such clauses are
not punctuated by a comma:
The people who caused most trouble have left the area.
(The people, who caused most trouble, have left the area.)
The town house which they had bought was let out to tenants within a matter
of days.
The best pictures to buy in Cuba are always by the street artists.
The city braced itself for the storms caused by a cyclone in the Pacific.
Embedded clauses, however long and complex, that function as the subject of the
main clause, are not marked off by commas:
The decisions about congestion parking that have been pushed through by the
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