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CLAUSES
RELATIVE CLAUSES
• Relative clauses describe and provide information
about something or someone that we have usually
already specified.
– I like working with students who appreciate what I
do.
• We use relative clauses in order to identify things or
people and to distinguish them from other similar
things.
– Mancunians aren’t people who live in Manchester, they’re
people who were born there
USE
• 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.
RELATIVE CLAUSES
1. Subject and Object
Relative clauses give extra information about a noun
in the main clause. They can refer to this as subject or
object.
“That’s the woman who bought my car”
Subject
2. Combining sentences
Note how sentences are combined.
Subject :
“This is Sofia. She bought my car”
“Sofia is the person who bought my car”
Object :
“That is the flat. I was looking for it”
“That is the flat that I was looking for”
How to Form Relative Clauses
Imagine, a girl is talking to Tom.
You want to know who she is and
ask a friend whether he knows her.
>>You could say:
1. Subject: I don’t like the table that /which stands in the kitchen.
2. Object: (Pronoun Omission):This is the sweater (that/ which) I bought on Saturday.
WHOSE
• possession for people animals and
things. WHOSE cannot be omitted.