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Relative Clauses & Relative Pronouns
Relative Clauses & Relative Pronouns
Relative Clauses & Relative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
RELATIVE PRONOUNS
RELATIVE CLAUSES: USE
dependent clauses
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
Example:
I like working with students who want to learn something.
I downloaded a new film which is really interesting.
RELATIVE PRONOUNS
I didn’t get a pay rise – that was the reason why I left.
I didn’t get a pay rise – that was the reason (that) I left.
WHERE
WHEN
He will never forget the day when he started working in that company.
TYPES OF RELATIVE CLAUSES
The Smiths, who live next door, have bought a new car.
RELATIVE CLAUSES
DEFINING NON-DEFINING
RELATIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES
CLAUSES WHO
WHO WHOM
WHOM WHICH
WHICH WHEN, WHERE
THAT
WHEN, WHERE
More examples:
That’s the car which / that I paid $2,000 for. (more usual)