Contact relative clause
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A contact relative clause is a relative clause that immediately follows its head noun, without any relative pronoun or other relative marker. The term is mostly used for English relative clauses and is rarely applied to other languages.
Example
The girl we saw yesterday is your new classmate.
Origin
The term was coined by Otto Jespersen.
