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The Riverside office, which opened in 2018, will close for renovations in July.
8 Nonrestrictive Clause Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
Before you copy
What to notice in the examples
Effective nonrestrictive clauses contribute useful context without obscuring the main sentence, are punctuated as parenthetical information, and do not accidentally imply that optional information is needed to identify the noun.
- Confirm that the noun is already uniquely or sufficiently identified.
- Set the nonessential clause off with commas, dashes, or parentheses as appropriate.
- Use the clause for relevant context rather than unrelated trivia.
- Read the sentence without the clause to confirm the core reference remains intact.
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Dr. Mehta, who led the pilot study, presented the findings.
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The backup server, which is located off-site, completed the restore test successfully.
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My oldest notebook, which has a torn blue cover, still contains the original interview notes.
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The proposal, which the board received on Monday, will be discussed next week.
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Our main warehouse, which serves the northern region, remained operational during the outage.
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The novel’s final chapter, which shifts to a new narrator, changes how the opening scene reads.
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Priya’s bicycle, which she bought secondhand, has already crossed three states.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.