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    Relative clauses 1

    Defining Relative Clauses


    In the schoolyard

    I saw Natalie
    the other day.

    Natalie?
    The girl who
    plays the
    piano?
    In the schoolyard

    No, that’s Natasha.


    Natalie is the girl
    who dropped out of
    college.
    In the schoolyard

    She’s working in
    Davidson’s now. You
    know, the shop that
    sells expensive
    clothes.
    Let’s look at the lines more closely

    • Emma: I saw Natalie the other day.


    • Melanie: Natalie? The girl who plays the piano?
    • Emma: No, that’s Natasha. Natalie is the student who
    dropped out of college. She’s working in Davidson’s
    now. You know, the shop that sells expensive clothes.

     Clauses printed in red are called relative clauses.


    They give us more information about the subject or
    the object of the previous sentence/clause.
    Explanation

    • The relative clauses in this conversation


    identify which person/thing they are talking
    about. The clause who plays the piano tells us
    which girl Melanie means. The clause that
    sells very expensive clothes tells us which
    shop Emma means.
    • Relative clauses are usually introduced by
    pronouns: who, which and that.
    THAT/WH0
    • The relative pronoun who refers to people.
    e.g. The woman who lived here before us is
    a romantic novelist.

    • It is also possible to use that when we talk


    about people especially in informal language.
    e.g. This is the girl that has eaten all the
    biscuits.
    THAT/WHICH

    • The relative pronouns that & which refer to


    things. That is more usual than which,
    especially in conversation.
    e.g. The car that won the race looked very
    futuristic.
    • Which is more formal.
    e.g. All cells contain DNA which holds
    genetic information.
    WHOSE
    • WHOSE - refers to things belonging to
    people.
    e.g. That was the man whose car was stolen.
    Relative adverbs

    • We can also use some relative adverbs at the


    beginning of a relative clause:
    • WHERE – refers to a place
    e.g. We went to a camp where we stayed two
    years ago.
    • WHEN - refers to a time
    e.g. I’ll never forget the day when I met you.
    Subject/object

    • Relative pronouns can be either the subject


    or the object of the relative clause.
    Examples:
    Marco Polo was a merchant who visited China in the
    13th century. (subject)
    Glaciers are rivers of ice which form in cold climates
    on mountains. (subject)
    Einstein is a scientist who I admire. (object)
    This is the poem that I wrote in my first
    year. (object)
    LET’S PRACTICE
    Join the sentences by using who, which or that, where,
    when, whose.

    • Our house is pretty old. It has 3 bedrooms.


    • ___________________________
    • You saw the girl at the disco. It was Susan.
    • ___________________________
    • My wife was unemployed. She has a new job now.
    • ____________________________
    • The guy is my neighbor. He lived in the USA.
    • _____________________________
    • I gave you the phone number. It was correct.
    • _____________________________
    • The girl is my new neighbor. Her father is a doctor.
    • _____________________________
    • 1995 was a year. I started to go to school then.
    • _____________________________
    • We visited the house. My father was born there.
    • _____________________________
    Answer Key
    • Our house which/that has 3 bedrooms is pretty old.
    Our house which/that is pretty old has 3 bedrooms.
    • The girl who/that you saw at the disco was Susan
    • My wife who/that was unemployed has a new job now.-
    My wife who/that has a new job now was unemployed.
    • The guy who/that is my neighbor lived in the USA.
    The guy who/that lived in the USA is my neighbor.
    • The phone number which/that I gave you was correct.
    I gave you the phone number which/that was correct.
    • The girl whose father is a doctor is my new neighbor.
    • 1995 was the year when I started to go to school.
    • We visited the house where my father was born.

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