RELATIVE CLAUSE
Excercise: 37
1. The last record which produced by this company became a gold record.2. Checking accounts which require a minimum balance are very common now.
3. The professor whom you spoke yesterday is not here today.
4. John whose grades are the highest in teh school has received a scolarship.
5. Felipe bought a camera which has three lenses.
6. Frank is the man whom e are going to nominate for the office of treasurer.
7. The doctor is with a patient whose leg was broken in an accident.
8. Jane is the woman who is going to China next year.
9. Janet wants a typewriter which self-corrects.
10. This book whom I found last week contains some useful information.
11. Mr. Bryant whose team has lost the game looks very sad.
12. James wrote an article whose indicated that he dislike the president.
13. The director of the program who graduated from Harvard University is planning to retire next year.
14. This is the book whom I have been looking for all year.
15. William whose brother is a lawyer wants to become a judge.
Exercise: 38
1. George is the man chosen to represent the committee at the convention.
2. All of the money accepted has already been released.
3. The papers on the table belong to Patricia.
4. The man brought to the police station confessed to the crime.
5. The girl drinking coffee is Mary Allen.
6. John's wife a professor, has written several papers on this subject.
7. The man talking to the policeman is my uncle.
8. The book on the top shelf is the one that I need.
9. The number of students counted is quite high.
10. Leo Evans a doctor, eats in this restaurant every day.
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RELATIVE CLAUSE
Defining Relative Clauses
Defining relative clauses (also called identifying relative clauses or restrictive relative clauses) give detailed information defining a general term or expression. Defining relative clauses are not put in commas.
Imagine, Tom is in a room with five girls. One girl is talking to
Tom and you ask somebody whether he knows this girl. Here the relative
clause defines which of the five girls you mean.
Do you know the girl who is talking to Tom?
Defining relative clauses are often used in definitions.
A seaman is someone who works on a ship.
Object pronouns in defining relative clauses can be dropped.
(Sentences with a relative clause without the relative pronoun are
called Contact Clauses.)
The boy (who/whom) we met yesterday is very nice.
Non-Defining Relative Clauses
Non-defining relative clauses (also called non-identifying relative clauses or non-restrictive relative clauses) give additional information on something, but do not define it. Non-defining relative clauses are put in commas.
Imagine, Tom is in a room with only one girl. The two are talking to
each other and you ask somebody whether he knows this girl. Here the
relative clause is non-defining because in this situation it is obvious
which girl you mean.
Do you know the girl, who is talking to Tom?
Note: In non-defining relative clauses, who/which may not be replaced with that.
Object pronouns in non-defining relative clauses must be used.
Jim, who/whom we met yesterday, is very nice.
How to Shorten Relative Clauses?
Relative clauses with who, which, that as subject pronoun can be replaced with a participle. This makes the sentence shorter and easier to understand.
I told you about the woman who lives next door. – I told you about the woman living next door.
Do you see the cat which is lying on the roof? – Do you see the cat lying on the roof?
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