characterized by or pertaining to emotion: the emotive and rational capacities of humankind. productive of or directed toward the emotions: Artistic distortion is often an emotive use of form.
portent. A phenomenon that serves as a sign or warning of some future good or evil: augury, forerunner, foretoken, omen, prefigurement, presage, prognostic, prognostication, sign. Idiom: writing on the wall.
clause. a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. an independant of main clause expresses a complete thought and can stand aloneas a sentance. A dependant or subordinate clause cannot stand alone as a sentance and must be accompanied by an independant clause.