Relative Clauses Tec III

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Grammar II

Carlos Jos Zayas Santos

Stephanie Carolina Nazar Torrez

April 12th - 2012


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Defining relative clauses give detailedinformation defining a general term orexpression.

Ex: Tom is in a room with five girls One girl is talking to Tom and you ask somebody

whether he knows this girl.

(english grammar online, 2010)


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In defining relative clauses can be dropped.

The boy (who/whom) we met yesterday isvery nice.



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Relative clauses with who, which, that assubject pronoun can be replaced with a

participle.

Ex:

I told you about the woman who lives nextdoor.



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A clause is a part of a sentence. A relativeclause tells us which person or thing the

speaker means. Examples:

People who live in London (who live in

London tell us what kind of people).(Smalzer r. M., 1989-2000)


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We use Who in a relative clause when we

are talking about people (not thing). We useWho instead of he/she/they:

The woman-she lives next door-is a doctor.

Example. The woman who lives next door is adoctor.

(Smalzer r. M., 1989-2000)


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When we are talking about things, we usethat or which (not who) in relative clause.

Examples:

Where is the cheese? - It was in the

refrigerator

where is the cheese (that, which )was in the refrigerator?

(Smalzer r. M., 1989-2000, p. 178)


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You must use who/that/which when it is thesubject of relative clause.

You cannot say The woman lives next door is

doctor or Where the cheese is was in the

refrigerator?

(Reimes, How to English Works, 1997)


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We use whose in relative clauses instead ofhis/her/their:

We saw some people their car had brokendown

We saw some people whose car had broken

down.

(Language Dynamics, 2010)


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We use whose mostly for people:

A window is a woman whose husband is dead.(Her husband is dead)

I met someone whose brother I went toschool with. (I went to school with his/herbrother)



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Compare who and whose:

I met a man who knows you. (He knows you)

I met a man whose sister knows you. (His

sister knows you)



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You can use where in relative clause to talkabout a place:

The hotel we stayed there wasnt veryclean.

Ex. The hotel where we stayed wasnt veryclean.

(English as 2nd Language, 2012)


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We say: the day/ the year/ the time, etc.(Something happens or that somethinghappens)

Ex:

Do you still remember the day (that) we firstmet?

The last time ( that) I saw her, she lookedfine.



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First type:

Relative clause, tells us which person or

thing (or what kind of person or thing) thespeaker mean: the woman who lives next

door tell us which woman.

(Reimes, How to English Works, 1997, p. 184)


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Second type:

Relative clause, do not tell us which personor thing the speaker mean. We already knowwhich thing or person is meant: my brother

Jim, Brads new job, and that Grand

Hotel.

(Reimes, How to English Works, 1997, p. 184)


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Use relative clauses to provide extrainformation. This information can either define

something, or provide unnecessary, butinteresting, added information.

Relative clauses can be introduced by:

Examples: No relative pronoun:

Where, why and when instead of a relativepronoun

A relative pronoun: who (whom), which, that,whose



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Add to relatives clauses we need to considerthe following when deciding which relative

pronoun to use: Examples:

Does it refers to a person or an object?

Is the subject or object or possessive of a

relative clause?


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