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DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES. Tell us some essential information about the things or people they refer to. The picture that hangs next to Margaret’s portrait is the one I like best.

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DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

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  1. DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES • Tell us some essential information about the things or people they refer to. The picture that hangs next to Margaret’s portrait is the one I like best. • If we remove the relative clause (that hangs next to Margaret’s portrait) we don’t know which picture they are talking about.

  2. NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES • Tell us some extra information about the things or people they refer to. The next painting shows Edmund’s wife Margaret, who he married in 1605. • If we remove the relative clause (who he married in 1605) we still know who they are talking about.

  3. RELATIVE PRONOUNS Both defining and non-defining relative clauses: • can begin with who (for people) and which (for things) (that can be used for people and things only in defining relative clauses) • can begin with whose (instead of his/her/their), when (for times) and where (for places) William, whose wife was a famous beauty, had nine children. Here they are in this picture from the year when the youngest was born. This is my family home, where we’ve lived for 50 years.

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