Relative Clauses

 UNIT 7

Relative Clauses

RELATIVE CLAUSES?

The Relative Clauses are used to make more complex sentences, these are linked to a main clause to make it a larger sentence, and serve to provide information about a person, object or place that has been previously mentioned in the sentence.

SOME RELATIVE CLAUSES

WHO: Refer to people

THAT: Refer to people or things

WHICH: Refer to things

EXAMPLES

• This is the book THAT won the Pulitzer prize last year. (Este es el libro que ganó el Premio Pulizer el año pasado.)

• The house in WHICH we lived in when we were children burnt down last week. (La casa en la que vivíamos cuando éramos niños se quemó la semana pasada.)

• I never met someone WHO didn’t like music. (Nunca he conocido a alguien que no le guste la música.)