Relative Clauses

Defining /Identifying / Restrictive Non-defining/ non-identifying/ Non-

The girl who lives next door is my
hairdresser.
The position of sales manager went to
the man who was 40.(several men,1
chosen)(
restrictive
Maria Smith, who lives next door, is my
hairdresser.
The position of sales manager went to
the man, who was 40. (only 1 man
among those who applied, he is 40)

1. Give additional info about a noun

1. Give essential info about a noun 2. Commas
2. No commas 3. –
3. That (instead of who/which) 4. –
4. Omitted (where the rel. pron.is
the object.) 5. ... ,which……(refers back to a
The car she wanted has been whole clause)
sold. The piano required several men to
fix it, which was perhaps no
surprising.

6. Determiners: some/ all/

both/none/ the majority/ most/
three-quarters/
….of which/ …of whom
6000 people were questioned,
three-quarters of whom said ‘no’.

7. Which + wh-words: which was

how/ which was when/ which is
where/

He arrived at 6, which was when

the diamonds went missing.

II. Join the following sentences using relative pronouns

1. Toledo is a fine city to visit. It gets extremely hot in summer.
2. You lent me a tent. It was damaged in a storm. You heard about the storm
on the news.
3. The woman lives next door. She bought an Old English sheepdog. It barks all
night.
4. I told you about a record. The record will be released next week. It has been
produced by a completely new method.
5. The Zoo’s most famous giant panda has died. Its name was Chi Chi.
6. They gave me a present. The present was very nice.
7. They gave me a present. It was very nice of them.
8. They have got 5 cats. They are all females.
9. This provides plenty of information. Unfortunately, much of it is useless.