RELATIVE CLAUSES

Defining Relative Clauses [Functions of the relative pronoun within the

defining relative clause]

[Subject: 1-2 – Direct Object: 3-4 – Indirect Object: 5-6 – Object to the Preposition: 7-8-9-10-11
– Subjective Complement: 12-13-14 – Objective Complement: 15-16]

1- The boy who broke the window is here.

2- The Windows that were broken have been repaired.
3- The boy that you met is my brother.
4- The flowers which I cut this morning are still fresh.
5- That man whom/who/that I lent the dictionary to seldom returns
the books.
6- The girl that/whom I gave the present to is Susan.
7- This is the pan that you make omelettes in.
8- The knife that we use to cut the bread with is Sharp.
9- The shop that we buy cakes from is open.
10- That’s not the way in which I do it.

That’s not the way I do it.

11- That’s the way money goes.

That’s how the money goes.
12- She is not the woman that she was before she married.
13- He speaks like the eccentric man that he is.
14- I’m not the madman that I was.
15- I’m not the fool that you thought me.
16- I’m not the madman that you thought me.