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    The document discusses defining and non-defining relative clauses. Defining relative clauses provide essential information about a person, place or thing by using a relative pronoun like who, which, or that plus a verb. Non-defining relative clauses give extra, non-essential information within commas. They must include the relative pronoun and cannot replace it with that.

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    The document discusses defining and non-defining relative clauses. Defining relative clauses provide essential information about a person, place or thing by using a relative pronoun like who, which, or that plus a verb. Non-defining relative clauses give extra, non-essential information within commas. They must include the relative pronoun and cannot replace it with that.

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    The document discusses defining and non-defining relative clauses. Defining relative clauses provide essential information about a person, place or thing by using a relative pronoun like who, which, or that plus a verb. Non-defining relative clauses give extra, non-essential information within commas. They must include the relative pronoun and cannot replace it with that.

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    10A relative clauses

    defining relative clauses (giving essential information)

    1 Julia’s the woman who / that works in the office with me.
    It’s a self-help book which / that teaches you how to relax.
    That’s the house where I was born.
    2 Is Frank the man whose brother plays for Manchester United?
    It’s a plant whose leaves change colour in spring.
    3 I’ve just had a text from the girl (who / that) I met on the flight to Paris.
    This is the new phone (which / that) I bought yesterday.

    To give important information about a person, place, or thing use a relative


    clause (= a relative pronoun + subject) + verb.
    1 Use the relative pronoun who for people, which for things /
    animals,
    and where for places.
    • You can use that instead of who or which.
    • You cannot omit who / which / that / where in this kind of clause.
    NOT Julia’s the woman works in the office with me.
    10A relative clauses

    defining relative clauses (giving essential information)

    1 Julia’s the woman who / that works in the office with me.
    It’s a self-help book which / that teaches you how to relax.
    That’s the house where I was born.
    2 Is Frank the man whose brother plays for Manchester United?
    It’s a plant whose leaves change colour in spring.
    3 I’ve just had a text from the girl (who / that) I met on the flight to Paris.
    This is the new phone (which / that) I bought yesterday.

    2 Use whose to mean ‘of who’ or ‘of which’.


    3 who, which, and that can be omitted when the verbs in the main clause
    and the relative clause have a different subject,
    e.g. She’s the girl I met on the plane.
    • where and whose can never be omitted,
    e.g. NOT Is that the woman dog barks?
    10A relative clauses

    non-defining relative clauses (giving extra non-essential information)

    This painting, which was painted in 1860, is worth millions of pounds.


    Last week I visited my aunt, who’s nearly 90 years old.
    Burford, where my grandfather was born, is a beautiful little town.
    My neighbour, whose son goes to my son’s school, has just remarried.

    • Non-defining relative clauses give extra (often non-essential information)


    in a sentence. If this clause is omitted, the sentence still makes sense.
    This painting, which was painted in 1860, is worth millions of pounds.
    • Non-defining relative clauses must go between commas (or a comma
    and a full stop).
    • In these clauses, you can’t leave out the relative pronoun
    (who, which, etc.)
    • In these clauses, you can’t use that instead of who / which.
    NOT This painting, that was painted in 1860, is worth millions of pounds.

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