28 abr 2014

Relative Clauses

Hi!

Today, I'm going to explain relative clauses.

We use them to give additional informaticon about something without starting another sentence.

-How do you form that?
It's very easy. For example:
Imagine you are talking about the clothes that your sister has bought.

-She is my sister. She has bought the clothes.

We can put together and said:

-She is my sister who has bought the clothes. 

There are some relatives pronouns to use:

-Subject Pronoun or Object Pronoun?
If the relative pronoun is followed by a verb, it's a subject.
The woman who was afraid of spiders.
If the relative pronoun is followed by a noun or a pronoun, it's a object.
He ate at the restaurant where my mum worked.

-Defining relative clauses
It gives some information that it's essential to understand the sentence and aren't put in commas.
This is the film which is directed by Pedro Almodovar.

-Non-defining relative clauses
It gives some information the it isn't essential to understand the sentence and are put in commas.
The girl, who lives in Barcelona, speaks two different languages.

Here you can do exercises and practise it. Bye! :)
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4