non-restrictive
Adjective
Meaning
non-restrictive (not comparable)
Alternative form of nonrestrictive.
Synonyms
Examples
British English, by contrast, generally does not require its writers to construct sentences in a manner that distinguishes between the restrictive and non-restrictive forms of modifiers.
In particular, a non-restrictive modifying phrase must be set off by commas, and it generally uses "which" as its pronoun.
In that sentence the phrase "which bit the man" is non-restrictive: it is merely providing background information about a dog whose identity is otherwise not in question.
Unit symbols such as kg and Hz are never punctuated. citation Restrictive and non-restrictive modifiers In American English, restrictive and non-restrictive modifying phrases require different words and sentence structures.