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Essential or non-essential clause

The new product launch .........we had all eorked so hard for was a disappointment

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Defining relative clause or non-defining relative clause.

Re: Essential or non-essential clause

The new product launch we had all worked so hard for was a disappointment.

So if we removed that we would have:
The new product launch was a disappointment.

But what new product launch? There's a lot of new product launches out there but we're talking about the one that we had all worked so hard for. This makes it a defining relative clause because it's essential to understanding the sentence properly.

If the sentence said:
Our company's new product launch, which we had all worked so hard for, was a disappointment.

Then if we removed our relative clause we would get:
Our company's new product launch was a disappointment.

Now we still understand which new product launch (our company's) this is a non-defining relative cause because it's giving us additional information that is not essential to the sentence.

Re: Essential or non-essential clause

Very clear
Thank you