Relative Clauses

Monday 19th,2009
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What are the RELATIVE CLAUSES?

We use relative clauses to give additional information about something without starting another sentence. By combining sentences with a relative pronoun. Two different pieces of information in one Example: 1)I told you about the sentence. door girl 2)She lives next
How can we combine them? - I told you about the girl who lives next door

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What are the relative pronouns? Example Relative pronoun Use

WHO (quien) To talk about people I told you about the girl WHO lives next door. I like the man WHOSE father is a doctor WHOSE (de quien) To talk about possessions

WHICH ( cual o cuales)To talk about animals I hate the cat WHICH is or things on the roof THAT To talk about animals, I like the t-shirt THAT people or things Tom gave me for my birthday To talk about places I remembered the beach WHERE I met you

WHERE

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Examples
(1) I met a girl (2) her father is a doctor.

I met a girl whose father is a doctor ( 2 pieces of information in one sentence)

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 (1) The postman (2) he is old and works in my neighborhood

The postman, who works in my neighborhood, is old. (1) the bottles are lying on the floor (2) the bottles are green The bottles ,that are lying on the floor,
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Relative clauses: types

The relative clauses we can classify them in DEFINING and NONDEFINING.

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Defining relative clauses

To give detailed information about something or someone. Example: A teacher is someone who works in a school. ( More information about the teacher. Information needed it to understand the sentence)
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Non-defining relative clauses

To give additional information about something or someone. The information is NOT needed to understand the sentence. That information goes between commas. Example: - The teacher, who has long hair, is from Argentina. (The information between commas is
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