A few languages allow finite clauses to be nominalized without morphological transformation.

A simple sentence usually consists of a single finite clause with a finite verb that is independent.

A second major distinction concerns the difference between finite and non-finite clauses.

One traditional scheme for classifying English sentences is by the number and types of finite clauses:

The fact, however, that they can at times appear as a predependent of their head (as in the finite clauses above) is curious.

(an imperative sentence, an example of a finite clause lacking a subject)

Personal infinitive sentences may often be used interchangeably with finite subordinate clauses.

In these cases, finite clauses are usually associated with the more formal registers of the language.

In finite clauses after would rather and it's (high) time, the past tense is used:

A single finite clause can contain more than three auxiliary verbs, e.g.