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Defining / Non-defining Clauses

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RELATIVE CLAUSES

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970, wrote several novels about the Soviet labour camps in Siberia.

This presentation deals with DEFINING and NON-DEFINING CLAUSES. You'll learn the differences between them and catch up with additional information that will help you to advance your current knowledge.

RELATIVE CLAUSES give us information about the subject or object of a main clause.

Defining relative clauses describe exactly which (or what kind of) person or thing we mean:

RELATIVE CLAUSES give us information about the subject or object of a main clause.

Leaving out the relative pronoun

RELATIVE CLAUSES give us information about the subject or object of a main clause.

Clauses with WHEN, WHERE, WHY

do the QUIZ to focus on main points

Defining clauses

The relative pronoun

give us an essential information about a subject or object of the sentence.

(who, which, that) can be left out from the sentence when it's the SUBJECT.

First read the questions and answer them Yes or No. Then check the answer clicking on button.

We can say like below

We can say like below

There was snow in Houston on the day I was going to the USA.

This is where I lived up to 1996.

RELATIVE CLAUSES give us information about the subject or object of a main clause.

Non- Defining relative clauses give us extra info about the subject or object of a main clause

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970, wrote several novels about the Soviet labour camps in Siberia.

If we remove the clause, the sentence still makes sense:

Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote several novels about the Soviet labour camps in Siberia.

RELATIVE CLAUSES give us information about the subject or object of a main clause.

THAT and WHAT

RELATIVE CLAUSES give us information about the subject or object of a main clause.

Punctuation and Prepositions

RELATIVE CLAUSES give us information about the subject or object of a main clause.

Comment Clauses with WHICH

do the QUIZ to focus on main points

Non-Defining clause

Are they same in meaning?

can be easily removed from the sentence

The people, who left the room, got lost.The people who left the room got lost.

First read the questions and answer them Yes or No. Then check the answer clicking on button.

Commas are used

Only WHICH is used

to introduce a comment clause

in both defining and non-defining clauses

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