Relative Clauses Equipe 01

What is relative clauses?

Use relative clauses to provide extra information.

- Defining relative clause;

Ex: A seaman is someone who works on a ship.

- Non-defining relative clause.

Ex: Jim who we met yesterday, is very nice.

Relative pronouns: Meaning

Relative pronoun Use Example

Who Subject or object pronoun for people

I told you about the woman who lives next door.

Which Subject or object pronoun for animals and things

Do you see the cat which is lying on the roof?

Whose Possession for people animals and things

Do you know the boy whose mother is a nurse?

Whom Object pronoun for people, especially in non-defining

relative clauses.

I was invited by the professor whom I met at the conference.

That Subject or object pronoun for people, animals and things in

defining relative clauses

I don’t like the table that stands in the kitchen.

Defining relative clauses The information is important in specifying what is being discussed.

People: who, whom or that.

Is this the man who/that stole your bag?

The boy whom we met yesterday is very nice.

Things: which or that.

I need a car which is big.

People or things: whose.

The tree whose leaves have fallen.

Rules

1. Never place between commas;

My brother who works as a police officer lives in New York.

2. Who, whom e which maybe replaced by that.

That is the woman who / that cleans my house every week.

3. If the pronoun is the complement of a preposition, can be omitted.

The people you came back with are acquaintances of mine.

4. The pronoun can be omitted when exercising function object.

Gustavo is the journalist who writes for the Times.

Non-defining relative clauses

The information is unnecessary/extra.

People: who, whom or whose;

Emma, who has two children, is my best friend.

Frank invited Janet, whom he had met in Japan, to the party.

The artist, whose name he could not remember, was one of the best he had ever seen.

Things: which or whose;

Tom didn't phone, which I found very strange.

Rules

1. Place between commas;

My brother, who is a police officer, lives in New York.

2. First, mid or end position;

You should stop smoking, which is bad for you.

3. Whose cannot be issued or substituted for that.

Comparison

The students who passed the test had a party.

The students, who passed the test, had a party!

My brother who lives in London has two children.

My brother, who lives in London, has two children.

The students (who) I know are on holiday.

The students, who I know, are on holiday.

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