Relative Pronouns

1. Relative Pronouns Español 4 (AP/IB)

2. Relative pronouns • Relative pronouns are used ____ _______ information found in different parts of a sentence. • The relative clause provides additional information about the ________ or ______ mentioned in the first part of the sentence. Quiero iral museo queestá cerca del centro relative pronoun relative clause

3. Relative Pronouns • You introduce a relative clause with a relative pronoun. • The most common relative pronoun is ___. • que refers to both ________ and ________ elartista que pintó este cuento el obra teatral que divierte a todo el mundo

4. Relative Pronouns • Quien (and the plural quienes) is the relative pronoun that is used to refer to __________. It is usually used after a _____________. • There is ___ accent mark on quien/quienes when you use them as relative pronouns. la cantante con quien hablé los pintores de quienes te hablé

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6. Relative Pronouns • In Spanish, _______end a sentence with a preposition! NOT – Ella es la chica él salió con • Ella es la chica ____ _____ él salió.

7. Relative Pronouns • ______ omit a relative pronoun in Spanish. La persona que vi en la calle no está. • It can be omitted in __________. The person (that) I saw on the street is gone.

8. Relative Pronouns • You can also use the relative pronouns, el que and el cual, in the same way, but to show a __________ relationship or provide greater ____________. • You will notice that these forms ______ in _________ and _______ with the noun to which they refer.

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10. Relative Pronouns • Ejemplos: agree in gender & number • un temploenel que hay jeroglíficos • la guitarristasinla cual no podemos tocar

11. Relative Pronouns • If there are two possible _________, quien (-es) or que is used to indicate the nearer of the two. La madre de Felipe, quien (que) está enfermo, le cuida con cariño. (Philip is ill) • The more distant antecedent is indicated by a form of el (la, los, las) cual (-es)or el (la, los, las) que. La madre de Felipe, la cual (la que) está enferma, no saldrá hoy. (the mother is ill) • This helps (through gender & number) to clarify the antecedent.

12. Relative Pronouns • Note that in formal uses, such as writing, it is more ________ to use ______ instead of el que. • Informal Hablé con el que llegó tarde. • Formal Cristóbal Colón fue un explorador famoso, el cual llegó a las Américas.

13. Relative Pronouns • The relative pronouncuyo(a) means _______, refers to both persons and things. • It agrees with the thing (or person) ___________ not the ______________. • Remember to make it agree in ______ and _________ with the noun that follows: • El pintor cuyos cuadros nos gustaron

14. Relative Pronouns • Lo que means _____, or ___________. • You use it when there is no direct person, place or thing in the main clause to which you are referring. • It refers to a more ______________ idea or concept. No comprendo lo que quieres decir ¿Por qué no me dices lo que piensas?

15. Relative Pronouns • When you use lo que after todo it means ____ _______, __________ ______. • Tienes que decirme todolo que sabes. • Nos dieron todolo que tenían