RELATIVE CLAUSES

Relative pronouns
 Who - people
 Whose - possession
 Which - things
 When - time
 Where - places
 That - people / things (ONLY FOR DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES)

Relative clauses:
DEFINING Relative Clauses
- Essential information.
- We can use “that”.
- We can omit the relative pronoun if it isn’t the subject of the relative clause.
This is the boy who/that is living in Japan now.
This is the boy (who/that) I met at school yesterday.
My sister whose name is Lucy is 12 years old.

NON-DEFINING Relative Clauses

- Additional information.
- We use commas.
- We can’t use “that”.
- We can’t omit the pronoun.
This is Mark, who is living in Japan now.
My sister, whose name is Lucy, is twelve years old.