to dig a hole in the ground, especially to live in: Rats had burrowed into the bank of the river. to move yourself into a position where you can feel warm, comfortable, or safe: Suddenly shy, our young daughter burrowed her head into my shoulder.

to make a hole or passage in, into, or under something. to lodge in a burrow. to hide. to proceed by or as if by digging. SEE MORE.

The embedded question is a noun clause and can be used in a similar way to a noun. For example, we can use it as the subject or the object of the main clause. Embedded question in a statement: I don’t know where she works. (Here ‘where she works’ is the object.)

One way for a writer or speaker to expand a sentence is through the use of embedding. When two clauses share a common category, one can often be embedded in the other. For example: Norman brought the pastry.

Embedded clauses are placed within the main clause in a sentence. They do not make sense as stand-alone sentences, unlike main clauses. For example: The giraffe, who was the tallest in the zoo, towered over the other animals.

What are embedded relative clauses? Embedded relative clauses are clauses which include relative pronouns (who, that, which, whose, where, when) and appear within the middle of a sentence. They’re usually used to define or identify the noun which goes ahead of them.

transitive verb. 1a : to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix fossils embedded in stone. b : to make something an integral part of the prejudices embedded in our language. c : to prepare (a microscopy specimen) for sectioning by infiltrating with and enclosing in a supporting substance.

Relative clauses are clauses starting with the relative pronouns who*, that, which, whose, where, when. They are most often used to define or identify the noun that precedes them.

DEFINITION OF CLAUSE AND PHRASE: A clause is a group of words with a subject-verb unit; the 2nd group of words contains the subject-verb unit the bus goes, so it is a clause. A phrase is a group of words without a subject-verb unit.