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Complex Sentence.2

This document discusses different types of complex sentences, including sentences joined with conjunctions, noun clauses, and relative clauses. It provides examples of each type and guidelines for their proper use, such as using who or whom to refer to people and which or that to refer to objects or animals in relative clauses. It also covers the position of prepositions in relative clauses and the use of whose in relative clauses referring to people, things, or animals.

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Complex Sentence.2

This document discusses different types of complex sentences, including sentences joined with conjunctions, noun clauses, and relative clauses. It provides examples of each type and guidelines for their proper use, such as using who or whom to refer to people and which or that to refer to objects or animals in relative clauses. It also covers the position of prepositions in relative clauses and the use of whose in relative clauses referring to people, things, or animals.

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Complex sentence

Introduction
1 We can join two or more simple sentences to make
complex sentences:
The alarm was raised. The fire was discovered.
The alarm was raised as soon as the fire was discovered.
The alarm was raised when the fire was discovered.
The alarm was raised after the fire was discovered.
2 We can use many different kinds of 'joining words' (or
conjunctions) to make complex sentences: after, as soon as,
when, since, that, if, so that, whether, etc.
In a complex sentence there is one 'main' idea and one or
more 'subordinate' ideas.
Underline the main clauses in these sentences.
1 You can tell me all about the film after I've seen it
myself.
2 When you've finished cleaning the car, you can help me
with the dishes.
3 You didn't tell me that you were going to invite so many
guests. ...
4 I walk to work every morning so that I can get some
exercise.
5 Since no one answered my call, I left a message on the
answer-phone.
Complex sentence: Noun clause
1 A noun clause does the work of a noun. It answers
the questions Who? or What?:
He told me about his success. (told me about what?):
He told me that he had succeeded. (... What?)
2 We often use noun clauses after 'reporting verbs' like
say, tell (me), think, know.
Instead of: I know that he's going to be late, we can
say: I know he's going to be late.
Complex sentence: Relative Clause
'Who', ‘whom’, 'which' and 'that' as subjects of a
relative clause
We use who(m) or that to refer to people.
We use which or that (in place of noun subjects and it)
to refer to animals and things:
 That's the cat which/that lives next door.
Join these sentences using who or which. (All of them
will also join with that.)
1 He's the accountant. He does my accounts .
2 She's the nurse. She looked after me.
3 They're the postcards. They arrived yesterday.
4 They're the secretaries. They work in our office.
5 That's the magazine. It arrived this morning.
6 They're the workmen. They repaired our roof.
we usually omit who(m) and that. We say
He's the man/She’s the woman I met.
They're the men/they're the women I met.
we usually omit which and that. We say:
Those are the cats I photographed.
That's the photo I took.
The position of prepositions in relative clauses is very
imponant. We can say:
He is the person (to) whom I wrote. (Never 'to who) (very
formal)
He is the person who I wrote to.
He is the person whom I wrote.
whom=to who, who….to

This is the pan in which I boiled the milk. (very formal)


This is the pan which I boiled the milk in.
In which=which…in=where
Whose' + noun in relative clauses
Whose does not change when it refers to masculine,
feminine, singular or plural:
He's the man/She's the woman whose car was stolen.
They're the people whose cars were stolen.
2 We sometimes use whose in place of its to refer to things
and animals:
 That's the house whose windows were broken. (= the
windows of which)
3 We can also use whose with prepositions: He's the man
from whose house the pictures were stolen. (formal)
He's the man whose house the pictures were stolen from.

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