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Defining and Nondefining Relative-Clauses

This document provides information about relative clauses, including: 1. Relative clauses add information about a noun or noun phrase using a relative pronoun like who, whom, that, which, where, or whose. 2. Defining/restrictive relative clauses add essential information, while non-defining/non-restrictive clauses add extra information. 3. Commas are used to set off non-defining relative clauses but not defining ones.

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Defining and Nondefining Relative-Clauses

This document provides information about relative clauses, including: 1. Relative clauses add information about a noun or noun phrase using a relative pronoun like who, whom, that, which, where, or whose. 2. Defining/restrictive relative clauses add essential information, while non-defining/non-restrictive clauses add extra information. 3. Commas are used to set off non-defining relative clauses but not defining ones.

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RELATIVE CLAUSES

A REMINDER …
• A clause is a group of words that includes a subject and
a verb.
• You can put two or more sentences together using a
relative pronoun to get a relative clause.
WHY IS IT CALLED A RELATIVE CLAUSE?
• Because one clause is related to the other.
• The relative clause has a word or a phrase that is related
to the main sentence / clause.
the main clause the relative clause
Example I got tickets to see Adel, who sings like an angel.
RELATIVE CLAUSES

Defining / Non-defining / Non-


Restrictive Clauses restrictive Clauses
Mariam Ann, who won the
Children who eat vegetables 2018 Arab Reading
are likely to be healthy. Challenge in Dubai, is a
nine-year-old girl.
1.Are
Does the
usclause
all children
It gives givetousbe
likely
important
important
information. information?
healthy? 1.
1. The
Doesclause
the clause
doesn’tgive
give
us us
2. Are commas(,)
No commas (,)are
used?
used. Do we know the girl?
important
important information.
information?
2.
2. Commas
Are commas(,) are
(,) used.
used?
RELATIVE CLAUSES
« that » can Non-defining / Non-
Defining /
never be
Restrictive Clauses used.
restrictive Clauses

Pronouns Pronouns
a person who / whom a person who / whom
/ that / Ο
a thing which / that / Ο a thing which
a place where a place where
possession whose possession whose
time when time when
EXAMPLES
Defining / Restrictive Clauses
1. The man who / that lives next door is very friendly.
2. Are you the one who / that sent me the email?
3. I don’t like the stories which / that have unhappy endings.

Non-defining / Non-restrictive Clauses

1. John's mother, who lives in Scotland, has 6 grandchildren.


2. Yesterday I met a woman named Susan, whose husband works in
London.
IS IT A RESTRICTIVE OR NON-RESTRICTIVE
RELATIVE CLAUSE?
R.C 1. The student who sits in the back of the room
asks a lot of questions.
R.C 2. The phone which has the most features is also
the most expensive.
R.C 3. Ann’s sister who is a tennis champion visited her
last weekend.
N.C 4. Rachel, whom we met yesterday, lives in this
neighbourhood.
To Sum Up …
•Restrictive/Defining Relative Clauses
add essential information to a sentence
•Non-defining relative clauses
add extra information to a noun or noun
phrase.
PRACTICE
1. Yesterday I met John, … told me he was getting married
2. Mr. Brad, … has worked for the same company all his life, is retiring next
month
3. The strike at the car factory, … lasted ten days, is now over

4. The other day I met someone … brother I went to school with

5. The man … I wanted to see was away on holiday

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