INTERCHANGE 3

UNIT 1
Relative Pronouns
Clauses with it + adverbial clauses with when

RELATIVE
PRONOUNS:
WHO/ THAT

RELATIVE CLAUSES
I like girls who/that arent too serious.
Id prefer someone who/that I have fun with.

Clauses beginning with who, which,

or that, are often used to modify
nouns and some pronouns to identify
people and things, or to give more
information about them. Clauses used
like this are called relative clauses.

RELATIVE PRONOUNS
subject

verb

object

I like girls who arent too serious.

subject

verb

object

Id prefer someone who I have fun with.

When who or that are used to introduce

relative clauses, they are called relative
pronouns. Who and that can be the
subjects or the object of verbs in relative
clauses.

RELATIVE PRONOUNS
subject

verb

object

I like girls who arent too serious.

SUBJECT RELATIVE CLAUSE or

RELATIVE PRONOUN AS SUBJECT
subject

verb

object

Id prefer someone who I have fun with.

OBJECT RELATIVE CLAUSE or

RELATIVE PRONOUN AS OBJECT

CLAUSES
WITH IT +
ADVERBIAL
CLAUSES
WITH WHEN

PREPARATORY IT + ADVERBIAL CLAUSE

subject verb object

I dont mind it when people talk loudly during a movie.

I dont like it when a cell phone rings in the classroom.

We can sometimes use it as a

preparatory object. In English long or
complicated items are put towards the
end of a sentence.

PREPARATORY IT + ADVERBIAL CLAUSE

subject verb object

It bothers me when people talk loudly during a movie.

It upsets me when a cell phone rings in the classroom.

We can sometimes use it as a

preparatory subject. In English long or
complicated items are put towards the
end of a sentence.