Relative Clauses

Relative

Clauses

Belén & Paula

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Acrime has been committed

You have to solve the murder!

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SUSPECTS

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Rules

• After explaning every slide there are three sentences
• If you make the exercise corectly you will pass to an slide where it says "correct"
• In the slide there is a clue of who can be the murderer
• If you say the wrong one you won't obtain the clue
• At the end of the presentation you have to order the clues in order to solve the murder

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First clue

Are you able to make 3 relative clauses without knowing the theory?

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Correct!

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Relative Clauses

NEUTRAL

Relative clauses are a part of a sentence that gives us information about the person or thing mentioned

• Uses:Gossip, writings, speaking, stories...

• Martha is the girl who stole the car

Car

Stole

Martha

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Relative pronouns

We use relative pronouns to refer to a noun mentioned before and to which we want to add more information or modify.

• They can be used to refer singular and plural nouns

Pronouns

Relative pronouns

That can't be used after a ,

Examples

Person→ who/that* Object→ which/that * Possession→ whose Place→ where When→ time Why→ reason Whom→ when the sentence doesn’t refer to the subject, but the object ("indirect object")

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Uses of that

It is sually used to introduce specific relative propositions preceded by

• something
• anything
• everything
• nothing
• all

a superlative

It can be omitted when it does not function as the subject of the relative clause.

Everything (that) you say seems silly to me.

Do you have anything that will help my throat?

There's something (that) you should know.

Defining clauses

• They give us essential information about the antecedent (information that we need to understand who or what is being referred to)

• We DON'T use commas

• That
• The girl who/that lives next door is a football player
• I have a friend whose mum is a doctor

That is the house where I used to live

Here are some computers that have been damaged

I like the woman, who lives next door

CORRECT!

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The relative pronoun can be omitted

(*whose)

OBJECT

SUBJECT

1) The girl who/that I met yesterday is a musician The girl I met yesterday is a musician2)The task which/that the teacher sent was very difficult The task the teacher sent was very difficult 3)Martha is the girl who/that stole the car

She is one of those people who can sleep everywhere

Jane is a person that they like

She showed me the pictures that she had taken

CORRECT!

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PREPOSITIOM+RELATIVE FORMAL

Object: Preposition+which Person: preposition+whom

The film in which he appears was a great sucess

The person to whom I had to talk wasn't there

*The film he appears in was a great sucess*The person I had to talk to wasn't there

THAT

The guy with that I had dinner yesterday lives in London

WHO

WHICH

WHOM

OTHER EXAMPLES

About+whom*He did not seem to be concerned about whom his opinions might be hurting About+which *This is a serious problem about which we should be concerned

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Non defining

We can't omitthe pronoun

• They give us extra information
• If we omit them, the sentence still makes sense
• We use commas
• That
• I was sitting next to Marta, who was a tall girl, during the 3rd term
• Last year, when I was 17 years old, I broke my leg

That boy sitting next to Laura, whose mum is called Natalia, is my friend

My dog, which/that is brown, is a Yorkshire

The reason why I hate Physics is because it is too difficult

CORRECT!

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Summarize

Defining vs Non defining

Who is the murder?

Suspects

Will you solve the crime?

Congrats!!!You have solved the mystery!!

CORRECT!

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• She gave a present to a boy whom name was Gonzalo

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• Elena, whose boyfriend is called Hugo, is sitting next to me
• My mum, whose eyes are green, is called Sonia

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• The reason why Ruben doesn't like his sit is beacuse he is at the front

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• Last Saturday night, when we were sleeping, it rained a lot

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• The Math exam which/that will be on Wednesday is about analysis
• My phone, which (that can't be used) I bought two years ago, is an iphone 13

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• This is the place where we met 5 years ago
• I have been living in Arroyomolinos, where there are a lot of houses, for 10 years

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• The man who/that is shouting is my dad
• Rúben, who (that can't be used) is older than me, has passed the exam