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Page 1: Awesome 4 August grammar and vocabulary review Saint Louis School English Department Carlos Schwerter Garc í a

Awesome 4August

grammar and vocabularyreview

Saint Louis School English Department Carlos Schwerter García

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Relative clausesRelative clauses add extra information to a sentence by defining a noun. They are usually divided into two types –defining relative clauses and non-defining relative clauses.

Non-defining relative clauses

Look at this sentence.• My grandfather, who is 87, goes swimming every day.• ‘who is 87’ is a non-defining relative clause. It adds extra information to 

the sentence. If we take the clause out of the sentence, the sentence still has the same meaning.

Look at some more examples.• The film, which stars Tom Carter, is released on Friday.• My eldest son, whose work takes him all over the world, is in Hong Kong at

the moment.• The car, which can reach speeds of over 300km/ph, costs over $500,000.• Non-defining relative clauses add extra information to sentences.

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Defining or non-defining?• Remember that defining relative clauses are used to add important 

information. The sentence would have a different meaning without the defining relative clause.

• I’m going to wear the skirt that I bought in London. The defining relative clause tells us which skirt.

• The skirt, which is a lovely dark blue colour, only cost £10. The non-defining relative clause doesn’t tell us which skirt – it gives us more information about the skirt.

• Non-defining relative clauses can use most relative pronouns (which, whose etc,) but they CAN’T use ‘that’ and the relative pronoun can never be omitted.

• The film, that stars Tom Carter, is released on Friday.• Non-defining relative clauses are more often used in written English 

than in spoken English. You can tell that a clause is non-defining because it is separated by commas at each end of the clause.

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Relative pronounsRelative pronouns are used to link two sentences that have the same noun or 

pronoun in them. Relative pronouns form the beginning of a relative clause. In English there are five basic 

relative pronoun forms:• that = used when referring to either an animate or inanimate noun• who = used when referring to an animate noun• which = used when referring to an inanimate noun• whose = used as a possessive elliptical relative pronoun = occurs when the 

relative pronoun is• omittedThe noun in the introductory clause is called the antecedent. A  relative pronoun replaces the noun in the second clause-the relative clause.Let's look at how relative pronouns connect two sentences. If the same noun or pronoun is found in both sentences, the second one can be omitted andreplaced by a relative pronoun. Then the two sentences are stated as one. Notice how the animate and inanimate nouns change to relative pronouns.