A balanced diet involves eating a variety of foods that give you the most nutrients for the calories they contain. An unbalanced diet, on the other hand, supplies you with either more or fewer of certain nutrients than your body needs.
Definition of clause for Students. 1  1 : a separate part of a document (as a will) 2  2 : a group of words having its own subject and predicate The sentence âWhen it rained they went insideâ is made up of two clauses: âwhen it rainedâ and âthey went inside.â.
Grammar Handbook: Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses. A modifying clause can be either restrictive or nonrestrictive. Restrictive Clause. A restrictive modifying clause (or essential clause) is an adjective clause that is essential to the meaning of a sentence because it limits the thing it refers to. The meaning of the sentence would change if the clause were deleted. Because restrictive clauses are essential, they are not set off by commas.