I am Santa's favourite grammatical rule, found in every contract and sentence. What am I?
A clause (Claus)
This riddle plays on the homophones 'clause' (a grammatical unit or contract condition) and 'Claus' (Santa's iconic last name). By linking sentence structure to Santa's identity, the wordplay points directly to this double meaning.
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