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    The document discusses the use of defining and non-defining relative clauses with prepositions in more formal and informal contexts. For defining relative clauses, prepositions are usually placed at the end of the clause in informal contexts, but before the relative pronoun in formal written language. Non-defining relative clauses provide extra information and are less common in informal speech; they can have the subject or object of the clause as the antecedent and use who or whom as the relative pronoun.

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    The document discusses the use of defining and non-defining relative clauses with prepositions in more formal and informal contexts. For defining relative clauses, prepositions are usually placed at the end of the clause in informal contexts, but before the relative pronoun in formal written language. Non-defining relative clauses provide extra information and are less common in informal speech; they can have the subject or object of the clause as the antecedent and use who or whom as the relative pronoun.

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    The document discusses the use of defining and non-defining relative clauses with prepositions in more formal and informal contexts. For defining relative clauses, prepositions are usually placed at the end of the clause in informal contexts, but before the relative pronoun in formal written language. Non-defining relative clauses provide extra information and are less common in informal speech; they can have the subject or object of the clause as the antecedent and use who or whom as the relative pronoun.

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    Giving important information: defining relative clauses with

    prepositions
    Usually (more informal): preposition towards the end of the
    clause
    1.People
    Jane gets a message from a man . She has long been in love with
    him.
    Jane gets a message from the man (who/that) she has long
    been in love with.
    2. Things
    Its full of tricks. You can puzzle your friend with them.
    Its full of tricks (which/that) you can puzzle your friends
    with.
    More informal register: preposition before the relative
    pronoun
    Usually written language:
    1. People
    Jane gets a message from a man. She has long been in love with
    him.
    Jane gets a message from the man with whom she has long
    been in love.
    2. Things
    Jane never forgets the institution. She spent many years in it.
    Jane never forgets the institution in which she spent many
    years.

    Giving extra information: non-defining relative clauses:


    These clauses are not very common in informal or spoken English.
    1. People
    Mrs. Reed treats Jane very badly. Mrs. Reed is a very
    unpleasant character.
    Subject of extra information clause
    Mrs. Reed, who is a very unpleasant character, treats Jane
    very badly.
    Mrs. Reed, who treats Jane very badly, is a very unpleasant
    character.

    The writer decides which information in important and which


    is extra.
    Object of extra information clause
    A solicitor called Briggs, who/whom Jane had never seen
    before, interrupted the ceremony.

    2.Things

    Subject of extra information clauses


    Mrs. Reed sends Jane to Lowood, which is a charity school for
    orphan girls.
    Object of extra information clause
    Jane returns to Thoenfield Hall, which Bertha has burnt
    down.

    Look!
    It s not possible to use that in non-defining relative clauses.

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