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    The document discusses relative clauses in English. It defines two types of relative clauses - defining and non-defining. Defining clauses provide essential information about a person or thing, while non-defining clauses provide non-essential extra information. The document explains which relative pronouns to use depending on whether the relative clause is defining or non-defining, and whether it refers to a subject or object. Examples are provided to illustrate the different types of relative clauses.

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    English III

    Licenciatura
    INDEX

    1. Present Perfect
    2. Past Perfect
    3. Second Conditional
    4. Third Conditional
    5. Subject - Object Questions
    and Tag Questions
    6.Relative Clauses
    7. Present Perfect Continuous
    and Past Perfect Continuous
    8. Narrative Tenses
    9. Passive Voice
    10.Reported Speech
    ENGLISH 3 WEEK 7 LESSON 6

    RELATIVE CLAUSES
    To talk about relative clauses rst we need to know the relative pronouns, those are:

    Subject Object Possessive Use for

    who who/whom whose people

    which which whose things

    that that - people or things

    We use relative pronouns to introduce relative clauses. Relative clauses are non-
    essential parts of a sentence. They may add meaning (tell us more about people and
    things), but if they are removed, the sentence will still function grammatically. There
    are two broad types of relative clauses in English. It is important to distinguish
    between them because it a ects the choice of pronoun used to introduce the clause.

    De ning clauses

    A de ning or identifying clause tells us which speci c person or thing we are talking
    about in a larger group of people or things. If a de ning relative clause is removed, the
    meaning of the sentence changes signi cantly. A de ning relative clause is not
    separated from the rest of the sentence by commas or parentheses.

    For example:

    Marie Curie is a woman. Marie Curie discovered radium.


    Marie Curie is the woman who discovered radium.
    fi
    fi
    ff
    fi
    fi
    fi
    fi
    fi
    That is the man. I spoke to him last week.
    That’s the man which / that I spoke to last week.

    Yesterday I met the girl whose sister is a supermodel.


    I knew the guy whose bike you bought.
    This is George, whom you met at our house last year.
    A woman whose daughter was crying tried to calm her.

    The relative pronoun is the subject/object of the relative clause, so we do not


    repeat the subject/object

    This is the house that Jack built.


    This is the house Jack built.

    In this kind of relative clause, we can use that instead of who or which.

    I work in that big yellow building which you can see over there.
    I work in that big yellow building that you can see over there.
    I work in that big yellow building you can see over there.

    Meryl Streep is the famous person who I'd most like to meet.
    Meryl Streep is the famous person that I'd most like to meet.
    Meryl Streep is the famous person I'd most like to meet.

    Non-de ning clauses

    A non-de ning or non-essential clause gives us more information about the person
    or thing we are talking about. If a non-de ning relative clause is removed from a
    sentence, we lose some detail, but the overall meaning of the sentence remains the
    same. Non-de ning relative clauses are always set o from the rest of the sentence
    with commas or parentheses.

    In non-de ning relative clauses, who/which may not be replaced with that.

    For example:
    fi
    fi
    fi
    fi
    fi
    ff
    My boss, who is very nice, lives in Manchester.
    Last week I bought a new computer, which I don't like now.
    The man, who is wearing a blue jumper, is in the garden
    17 Gough Square in London , which is a museum now, was his home at
    that time.
    The author, who graduated from the same university I did, gave a
    wonderful presentation.
    I had an uncle in Germany, from whom I inherited a bit of money.

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