Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Relative Clauses Academic Writing PPT 92216
Relative Clauses Academic Writing PPT 92216
elative Clause
※Definition:
R Clause functions as an
adjective and modifies a
noun or a pronoun.
Also called adjective
clauses.
※A relative clause begins with a R
elative Pronoun and Adverb:
※Position of Relative Clauses:
6. Fans quickly lose interest in a sports team. The team loses game after
game.
※Relative Pronouns as Objects:
※More Examples
※Test Yourselves:
4. In many countries, young people continue to live with their parents in the
same house. They grew up in that house.
5. In the United States, young people don’t want to live with their parents.
They typically declare their independence from their parents at age
eighteen.
※Relative Pronouns in Phrases of
Quantity and Quality
Quantity: some of which, one of whom, all
of whom, each of which, etc.
4. Puerto Ricans have strong ties to the United States. All of them
are U.S. citizens.
5. Puerto Rico has three political parties. One of them favors Puerto
Rico’s becoming a state.
※Adverbial Relative Clauses:
when & where; replace entire prepositional
phrase, such as on Sunday or in the city.
※More Examples
※Test Yourselves:
1. Germany had been divided into two countries
since 1945. it was defeated in World War II in
1945.