Relative clauses

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RELATIVE CLAUSES : 

RELATIVE CLAUSES

What are relative clauses? : 

What are relative clauses? Subordinate clauses which allow us to add information about people or things we are talking to, without a need to repeat the name e.g. That is the house. The house was built on the main road. That is the house which was built on the main road.

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Relative clauses are introduced just after the antecedent and are introduced by a pronoun or a relative adverb. The most frequent ones are: who; whom; which; that (only in defining relative clauses) and relative adverbs: where; when; why.

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After preposition you write whom for people and which for things, but it is more common to place prepositions at the end of the sentence (and it is more usual in spoken English). e.g. This is the boy about whom you were asking me This is the boy (who) you were asking me about. Only whom and which, you can’t use it with ‘that’

DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES : 

DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES They give essential information about their antecedent and without them, the meaning will be incompleted. That is why you write them without commas. (oraciones especificativas) The computer which we bought is very expensive The man who is coming will bring us the present

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Relative pronouns can’t be omitted if it’s the subject of the relative clauses. The man who visited yesterday is an actor The house that was so old was rebuilt. But if it’s not the subject it can be omitted the man (whom/that) I met at the party told me the truth The house (which/that) we bought is very comfortable

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If the relative pronoun is followed by a verb, then it can’t be omitted. If the relative is followed by a subject + verb, then it’s almost sure you can drop it whose can’t be omitted, though it’s never a subject e.g. The horse whose leg you broke had to be killed ‘what’ means ‘el que’ ‘las cosas que’ and is used when the antecedent is understood e.g. I know what you did last summer.

NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES : 

NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES If we remove this relative clause, there’s no problem to understand the main sentence, since it gives extra information. Thus, we write it between commas. e.g. The European Police Force, which began working in 1999, is called Europol.

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The antencedent is usually a proper name of a person or thing and it contains a possessive like ‘my’, ‘his’, ‘her’, the definite article ‘the’ or demonstratives like ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘these’ or ‘those’: My house, which is quite comfortable, needs redecorating. This book, which I bought last week, is not as interesting as I thought.

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Main Features: Between commas ‘That’ is not allowed The relative pronoun can’t be omitted It’s less frequent than defining relative clauses. It is more formal and usually used in written texts.

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RELATIVE CLAUSES DEFINING NON-DEFINING WHO THAT WHICH THAT PRONOUNS WHERE PRONOUNS WHO WHICH WHOSE WHEN WHERE WHEN WHOM WHOSE They give us essential information The information given is not essential,it can be omitted.

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