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Understanding Relative Clauses in Sentences

Dive deeper into the use of relative pronouns like who, whose, which, that, where, and when in sentences. Learn how to construct sentences with these pronouns and understand the nuances they bring to your writing.

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Understanding Relative Clauses in Sentences

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  1. Sentences that give an explanation Relative clauses

  2. Who, whose, which, that, where, when • The man ___________ helped the children was a fireman. • The wave _____________ saved me threw the carriage to a higher ground • I remembered everything ___________ I needed to stay calm. • I will always remember the year _________ I visited Australia. • Death Valley is a desert ______________ many people have died due to the extremely high temperatures. • The families ______________ children died in last year’s earthquake will never recover from the trauma.

  3. Relative pronouns and their referals

  4. More details about relative clauses and pronouns • The relative pronoun can be omitted when it’s not the subject of the relative clause: • The girl (who) I saw yesterday was my ex-girlfriend. • The exercises (which) our teacher gave us are very difficult. • Non-defining: they are separated with commas. They give some dispensable information. They don’t admit “that” or any omission. • That boy, who I met the other night, is very strange. • This country, about which our teacher has told us a lot, sounds really interesting.

  5. REPHRASING APPLICATION • Wewillalwaysfindtwojuxtaposedsentences, separatedby a full stop: • “I met a womantheotherday. I didn’trecogniseher.” • Wemustidentifythetwoelementswhich are repeated in bothsentences: • “I meta womantheotherday. I didn’trecogniseher.” • Accordingtothereference, wemust use oneoranotherrelativepronoun. • I met a womanwho I didn’trecognisetheotherday. • Whenwefind a possessive in thesecondsentence,wemustrememberto use “whose”. • “Thewomanhad a nervousbreakdown. Herhousewasvandalized.” • “Thewomanwhosehousewasvandalizedhad a nervousbreakdown.”

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