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    Defining Relative Clauses

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    The document discusses defining and non-defining relative clauses. Defining relative clauses identify a specific person or thing being referred to in the sentence. They use who, that, which to refer to the subject or object of the clause. Non-defining relative clauses provide extra identifying information between commas and are not essential to the meaning of the sentence. They always use who for people and which for things/animals.

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    The document discusses defining and non-defining relative clauses. Defining relative clauses identify a specific person or thing being referred to in the sentence. They use who, that, which to refer to the subject or object of the clause. Non-defining relative clauses provide extra identifying information between commas and are not essential to the meaning of the sentence. They always use who for people and which for things/animals.

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    The document discusses defining and non-defining relative clauses. Defining relative clauses identify a specific person or thing being referred to in the sentence. They use who, that, which to refer to the subject or object of the clause. Non-defining relative clauses provide extra identifying information between commas and are not essential to the meaning of the sentence. They always use who for people and which for things/animals.

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    Defining Relative Clauses

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    Defining Relative Clauses

    • The police have found the boy.

    – Not clear which boy .

    • The police have found the boy WHO


    disappeared last week. = defining relative
    clause.
    Defining Relative Clauses
    • Have you met Jackie? She’s the girl
    THAT sits next to Mike in class. ( Which
    girl? – The girl that sits next to Mike)
    • I’m very friendly with the people who live
    downstairs. ( Which people? The people
    who live downstairs)
    • WHO/ THAT » PEOPLE ( defining
    relative clauses)
    Defining Relative Clauses
    • He took the job which paid the highest
    salary. (Which job? – The job which paid
    the highest salary)
    • I paid the bills that arrived yesterday.
    ( Which bills? The ones that arrived
    yesterday)
    WHICH/THAT » things; animals – defining
    relative clauses.
    Defining Relative Clauses
    • THAT/WHO/WHICH » subject of the
    clause. ( followed by a verb )

    • I talked to the girl WHO won the race.


    ↓

    The girl = the subject

    • That is the dog WHICH bit me.


    ↓The dog = the subject
    Defining Relative Clauses
    • WHO/THAT/WHICH = Object of the relative clause (
    Followed by a noun or pronoun)

    • The card which Ken sent was nice.


    ↓
    object ( The card ) The subject = Ken

    The man that I saw was very rude.

    object ( the man ) The subject = I

    • The card Ken sent was nice.


    • The man I saw was very rude.
    Defining Relative Clauses
    • Susan is the woman whose husband is an
    actor. ( Susan’s husband is an actor)

    • WE use WHOSE instead of HIS, HER,


    THEIR , etc
    • It has a possessive meaning.
    • The man whose dog bit me didn’t
    apologise. ( The man didn’t apologise. His
    dog bit me. )
    Defining Relative Clauses
    • In place of he/she, they = who/that
    • In place of it, they ( things/animals)=
    which/that
    • In place of his, her, their = whose
    Defining Relative Clauses
    • We chose the hotel. It seemed to be the
    nicest.
    • She spoke to the man. He was standing
    next to her.
    • She’s that singer. She was on TV last
    night.
    • The couple have got married again. Their
    divorce was in the newspapers.
    Defining Relative Clauses
    • We chose the hotel which/that seemed to
    be the nicest.
    • She spoke to the man who was standing
    next to her.
    • She’s that singer who was on TV last
    night.
    • The couple whose divorce was in the
    newspapers have got married again
    Defining Relative Clauses
    • The match….. we saw was boring.
    • The horse….won the race belongs to an
    Irish woman.
    • I love the icecream….they sell in that
    shop.
    • We’ll go to a restaurant … has a children’s
    menu.
    • The house…… Tom has just bought has a
    beautiful garden.
    Defining Relative Clauses
    • The match we saw was boring.
    • The horseTHAT/WHICH won the race
    belongs to an Irish woman.
    • I love the icecream they sell in that shop.
    • We’ll go to a restaurant WHICH/THAT has
    a children’s menu.
    • The house Tom has just bought has
    abeautiful garden.
    Non-defining relative clauses
    • London has over 6 million inhabitants.
    • LOndon, which is the capital of Britain, has
    over 6 million inhabitants.
    • Which is the capital of Britain gives us
    more information about London, but we do
    not need this information to define London.
    • We can understand the 1st sentence
    without this inofrmation.
    • It is a non-defining relative clause.
    Non-defining relative clauses
    • They usually appear between commas ( or
    after a comma ) and are not essential for
    the meaning of the sentence.

    • People: always WHO


    • Things/ animals: always WHICH
    Non-defining relative clauses
    • Elvis Presley earned millions of dollars.
    He died in 1977.
    Elvis Presley, who died in 1977, earned
    millions of dollars.

    Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in The


    Alps. It is beween France and Italy.
    MOnt Blanc, which is between France and
    Italy, is the highest mountain in the Alps.
    Non-defining relative clauses

    • Alfred Hitchock was born in Britain. He


    worked for many years in Hollywood.
    • The sun is really a star. It is 93 million
    miles from the earth.
    • John F. Kennedy died in 1963. He was a
    very famous American president.
    • Charlie Chaplin was from a poor family.
    He became a very rich man.

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