🔼RELATIVE CLAUSES🔽

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➔ Function: 

Relatives clauses are phrases that are attached to a main clause and serve to give information about a person, object or place that was previously mentioned in the main clause.

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➔ Grammar:

In grammar these are: who, which, where, where, whom, whose, where, when, why.

Relative pronouns or adverbs refer to the person, object or place of the main sentence (what is known as antecedent) and replace it.

Relative clauses	Significado	Información
Who	¿Quién?	Personas
Where	¿Donde?	Lugares
When	¿Cuando?	Momentos/Tiempo
Which/That	¿Cual/Que?	Cosas y/o objetos

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➔ Structure: 

The relative clauses are equivalent to adjectival subordinate clauses and, therefore, we must differentiate between:

1. Adjective subordinate clauses (defining relative clauses)

2. Explanatory adjectival subordinate clauses (non-defining relative clauses)

Relative clauses:	Examples:
Who	I thanked the person who found my wallet this morning on the subway.
Where	The best time to call him is when the finishes his meeting at 10:30 a.m.
When	The Blue Lounge was place where I used to meet my friends.
Which/That	I think it was a trip to Paris that made me want to learn French.

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➔ Examples:  

1.- I like the woman who lives next door.

(If I don't say 'who lives next door', then we don't know which woman I mean).

2.- Live in London, which has some fantastic parks.

(Everybody knows where London is, so 'which has some fantastic parks' is extra information).

3.- Do you know the girl who started in grade 7 last week?

4.-Can I have the pencil that I gave you this morning?

5.-A notebook is a computer which can be carried around.

6.-I want to live in a place where there is lots to do.

7.-Yesterday was a day when everything went wrong

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➔ Exercices:

Complete the following sentences with: which / that, who, when or where.

     1.- A web designer is a person _____ can make your website look more professional.

     2.- It's a technique ______ helps you learn more effectively.

     3.- A good time to do brain training is _____ you feel relaxed.

     4.- It was my brother ______ used to take us swimming every Sunday.

     5.- We got married at place _____ we first met.

     6.- I'm going to choose a course _____ I'm really interested.

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