The second common variant to the direct sentence
is to add a comment or definition by means of a which clause.
The book also suffers more than
usual from Elshtain's prose style, which is earnest at best and
plodding at worst.
Set off by commas, the
which clause can be left out without disrupting the meaning of
the main clause.
His future, which initially appeared to be circumscribed by poverty
and ignorance, was drastically altered when he entered primary
school.
Users include the local reindeer,
which are said to become drunk and disorderly after feasting
on the mushrooms.
Software firms that had not existed two years
earlier, such as CyberCash, Yahoo, Spyglass, Spry and Ubique,
commanded huge sums as they went public or were bought by established
firms.
A that clause, by contrast, defines a noun and thus is not set
off by punctuation.
