RELATIVE CLAUSES

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 RELATIVE CLAUSES
•They give more information about a noun (person,
place, object, idea…) in a sentence.

He is the man who / that owns this car.

The hotel which is in front of the beach is quite

expensive.
 DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSE

•We use defining relative clauses to add

essential information to a sentence

•This is the man who sold me the car

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NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSE

 We use non-defining relative clauses to add non-essential

information to a sentence.

 If we removed the relative clause, the sentence would still make

sense on its own.

“Pedro, who is my brother, lives in Potosi.”

We use commas to separate a non-defining clause from the rest of the
sentence.

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• Relative clauses can begin with these words:

who  person.
• He is the man who owns this car
which  object.
• The phone which is on the shelf is already broken.
whose  indicates possession.
• The man whose wallet was stolen is very angry.
• Relative clauses can begin with these words:

that  object or person.

• The man that is in front of us talks too much.
• The door that doesn’t work will be fixed tomorrow.
where place.
• The café where we met is being torn down.
when  time.
• The month when we met was very rainy.
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