EXPLANATION DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

GRAMMAR UNIT 7

DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

WHEN DO WE USE DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES?

TO GIVE ESSENTIAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE NOUN IT REFERS TO. IT DESCRIBES A NOUN

ANIMALS

THINGS

PEOPLE

STEP BY STEP

• YOU HAVE TO CREATE A RELATIVE SENTENCE:

THOMAS EDISON IS A MAN. HE INVENTED THE LIGHT BULB

SECOND CHOOSE THE CORRECT RELATIVE LINKER

THIRD JOIN THE SENTENCES. REMEMBER. NO NEED TO ADD A SUBJECT WHEN THEY ARE THE SAME

FIRST FIND THE WORD TO BE DESCRIBED

OTHER TYPES

THERE ARE THREE OTHER TYPES OF DEFINING RELATIVE SENTENCES

PLACE IRELAND WAS THE COUNTRY WHERE I LIVED A YEAR AGO.

POSSESSION DELLAFUENTE IS THE SINGER WHOSE SONGS HAVE BECOME FAMOUS

TIME THE 1940S WAS THE PERIOD WHEN THE SECOND WORLD WAR OUTBROKE

IMPORTANT. OMISSION

IF THE RELATIVE PRONOUN IS FOLLOWED BY A SUBJECT, YOU CAN OMIT THE RELATIVE PRONOUN.

The book [which] I left there is for you

The man [who] we met yesterday is an old classmate

Take care The girl who played in FC Barcelona is my neighbour.

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