SECOND CLASS:RELATIVE CLAUSES

GUAYAQUIL, AUGUST DEL 2015

RELATIVE CLAUSES

OBJECTIVE

• IDENTIFY THE RELATIVE CLAUSES
• DEFINING OR CLASSIFYING THE RELATIVE CLAUSES

CLASSROOM LEARNING

We can use the following relative pronouns:

• WHO
• WHICH
• WHOSE

Here is how USED AND EXAMPLE

• WHO

It is used to people.

EXAMPLE

The man WHO wrote this book is usually very reserved.

• WHICH

It is used to things.

EXAMPLE

These are the DVDs. WHICH bought them at the mall.

• WHOSE

It used as a possessive pronoun.

EXAMPLE

That is the woman WHOSE daughter is so forgetful

REMEMBER:

• In a subject relative clause, we do not use a personal subject pronoun after which, who or whose.
• The verb in the relative clause needs to agree in number with the noun in the main clause.