Advanced English II

Teacher: Nelcy A. Garrido

RELATIVE CLAUSES

We use relative clauses to give additional information about something without

starting another sentence. By combining sentences with a relative clause, your text
becomes more fluent and you can avoid repeating certain words.

Many relative clauses start with a relative pronoun:

WHO and THAT : are used to refer to people

WHICH and THAT: are used to refer to things

SUBJECT RELATIVE CLAUSES

In Subject Relative Clauses, the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb in the clause.
 OBJECT RELATIVE CLAUSES

In Object Relative Clauses, the relative pronoun is the object of the verb in the clause.
In these clauses, the relative pronoun is often left out.

(An object is part of a sentence, and often part of the predicate. Basically, it is what or
who the verb is acting upon. The subject performs the action and the object receives
the action)