Universidad de Oriente

Núcleo Monagas
Departamento de Humanidades
Ingles Técnico I
Maturín – Monagas

Cláusulas Relativas
Contractadas
Integrantes:
Tutor(a):
Milenis Díaz Jonathan Mata CI 29642594
Oscar Trinitario CI 30316692
Anadielis Licett CI 30341034
Geraldin Valencia CI 26933108
 Relative Clauses

 Relative clauses are used to define or classify the subject or sustantive of

any given sentence, with different relative pronouns coming into play
depending on the type of sustantive that it identifies.

 The relative pronouns "who", "which" and "that" are a good start for
definining the topic of relative clauses – "who" finds use in sentences where
we look to identify a person, "which" does the same but for objects and
"that" is more versatile in that it can identify either.
 Types of Relative Clauses

 While we briefly touched on the different types of relative clauses, their use
and what they can identify, let us expand further on that.
 We have two main types of relative clauses, "Non-defining Relative
Clauses" and "Defining Relative Clauses".
 Non-defining Relative Clauses

 These type of clauses are used to add additional information. Commas are
employed to separate the relative clause from the rest of the sentence. One
defining trait of these type of clauses, aside from their usage, is the fact that
the pronoun "that" cannot be used to replace "which" or "who" in this type of
clause.
 Examples:

"My friend Tony, who is an excellent writer, is helping me with my English

paper."
"The report, which my boss asked me to write last week, still isn’t finished."
 Defining Relative Clauses

 They define the sustantive and identify which thing or person we are
referring to. Commas are not used with this type of clause.
 Examples:

"I wrote the report that you asked for."

"She never met the man who saved her father’s life."
 Relative Pronouns

 We use relative pronouns to refer to a sustantive (person or object)

mentioned prior and to which we want to add more information or modify in
some way. They can refer to someone or something in singular or plural
form. Some relative pronouns can only be used with people, others with
things and some with both of these.
 Reduced Relative Clauses

 They refer to the shortening of a relative clause. In spite of this, their use
remains the same as that of an unshortened relative clause. In the following
example we’ll show the difference between a relative clause and a reduced
relative clause:

"The man who works at Costco lives in Seattle." (relative clause)

"The man working at Costco lives in Seattle." (reduced relative clause)

 While much of the sentence remains the same, the relative clause (in this
case ‘who works’) shortens to the verb "working".
 Types of Reduced Relative Clauses

 As previously stated, reduced relative clauses are simply relative clauses

which have been shortened by removing a relative pronoun which morphs
the relative clause into one of the following:
Examples of Reduced Relative Clauses