Relative clauses

Relavite Clauses

Questions

Relative pronouns

Non-defining Relative Clause

can we drop them?

Defining Relative Clauses

Which one to use

Where do we use them?

When do we use them?

INDEX

What's a relative Clause?

When do we use a relative Pronoun?

A relative pronoun is used to identify, define or give additional information about a noun.The information that follows the pronoun is inside a relative clause.

After a noun.

Whom

When

Whose

Where

Which

That

Who

Relative Pronouns

Where do we use them?

A defining relative clause is used to identify or define the noun we are talking about.

Defining Relative clause

Examples

Examples

• Which
• That

• Which
• That

Animals

Objects

People

Which one to use?

• Who
• That
• Whose
• Whom

Whom

A person being referred as an object of the relative clause

Ghandi is someone whom most people admire

That's the guy whom she married

The man whose book I borrowed

That is the man who/that spilt my drink

Examples: People

This is the woman who/that stole my heart

The cat which/that I adopted

The camera that/which Isabel bought

Example: Objects and Animals

The dog which/that bit me

You can use 'that' instead of 'when' or 'why'

The reason why/that I was at the library

The day when/that we met

Where, when, why can be used as relative pronouns

The library where we met

Places, Times and reason

You can't drop:

• whose
• where

You can drop:

• who
• whom
• that
• which
• when
• why

If the information is related to the subject of the sentence

If the information is related to the object of the sentence

Bye Pronoun!

Can we drop the relative pronoun?

Examples

Examples

Example: When to drop it

That's the guy whom she married

That's the guy she married

The reason I was at the library

The reason why/that I was at the library

The day we met

The day when/that we met

The cat I adopted

The cat which/that I adopted

This is the woman who/that stole my heart

The man whose book I borrowed

The dog which/that bit me

Example: when you can't drop it

You can't use 'that' instead of 'who' or 'which'

Examples

non-defining relative Clauses

A non-defining relative clause gives additional information about a person, thing or animal. We don't need this information to understand the sentence. You have to use a comma ','

My sister, who I live with, knows a lot about cars

My sister knows a lot about cars.

I live with my sister.

I live in London, which has fantastic parks

London has fantastic parks.

I live in London.

Example: Non-defining relative clause

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