Clause

A clause is a syntactic units consisting of a predicate, its arguments, and its modifiers. The clause is perhaps the most basic unit of syntax.

Subtypes

 * embedded clause
 * main clause
 * relative clause
 * subordinate clause

Synonym
The term sentence is often used as a synonym of clause, but often it is used in a slightly different sense ('maximal clause', i.e. a clause that is not part of another clause).

Origin
From Latin clausula.

Other languages
German Satz, Teilsatz