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Stephany Rose Anajada Dacalos Posted 11 years ago
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Ms.Miyamoto said she also endured slurs growing up in the gritty southern naval port of Sasebo, where her mother's family raised her after her farther left Japan when she was infant.

I completely understand what this paragraph means, but I want to know what grammar term is this - after the word "Sasebo" there's a comma followed by "where" ...
  

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The 'where' introduces a non-defining (non-restrictive) relative clause.

  • The 'where' introduces a non-defining (non-restrictive) relative clause.
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The 'where' introduces a non-defining (non-restrictive) relative clause.

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