Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Non-Defining
Defining
Reduced Relative Clauses
What is a RELATIVE CLAUSE?
Subject and Object
SUBJECT:
This is Sofia. She bought my car.
This is Sofia who bought my car.
OBJECT:
This the house. I was looking for it.
This is the house that I was looking for.
RELATIVE PRONOUNS
Type of Noun Relative Pronoun
Time when
Possession whose
Reason why
Types of RELATIVE CLAUSES
If I remove the relative clause, does the
sentence still make sense?
=>
Have you ever been back to the town, that you were
born in?
Have you ever been back to the town that you were
born in?
PRACTICE
Choose the correct alternative: