RELATIVE CLAUSES

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ENGLISH: BACHILLERATO

RELATIVE CLAUSES

BLOQUE 2: DEFINIR O PARAFRASEAR UN TÉRMINO

TYPES OF RELATIVE CLAUSES

NON-DEFINING

DEFINING

DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

NECESARY INFORMATION. ESSENTIAL TO DISTINGUISH WHICH PERSON OR THING WE ARE TALKING ABOUT

WE CAN USE THAT

RELATIVE PRONOUNS CAN BE OMITTED

I always call a friend who lives far away from me

NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

My uncle Peter, who lives in Madrid, has helped me so much!!

RELATIVE PRONOUNS CANNOT BE OMITTED

USE COMMAS

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

THAT CANNOT BE USED

RELATIVE PRONOUNS

PERSONS/PEOPLE

OBJECTS

WHO/THAT

WHICH/THAT

Those are the websites THAT/WHICH don´t take credit cards

The man WHO/THAT was driving the car was badly injured

PERSONS/PEOPLE(to express possession)

ANIMALS

WHICH/THAT

WHOSE

This is the story of a man WHOSE wife suddenly loses her memory

This is the lion THAT/WHICH has been ill recently

PERSONS/PEOPLE (in formal contexts)

WHOM

This is Juan´s cousin, with WHOM I went to school

WHERE /WHEN

We also use WHEN with times and WHERE with places to make it clear which place or time we are talking about

The Expo 92 was held in 1992. It was the year when I got my degree

Stratford-upon-Avon is the town where Shakespeare was born

IT´S YOUR TURN!!!

WORKSHEET TO PRACTISE

Webpage to practise relative clauses

https://agendaweb.org/