2. Task: underline the relative clause
1/ A king is a person who rules the country.
2/ A dinosaur is an animal that lived a long
time ago.
3/ A bank is a place where you go to get some
money.

3.  We use relative clauses to give additional
information about something (a noun) without
starting another sentence.
 Usually we use these relative pronouns:
1/ who (a person) 6/ why (reason)
2/ which (a thing) 7/ when (time)
3/ that (a person or a thing)
4/ where (a place)
5/ whose (posesion)

4.  A princess  Is a girl who wears a beautiful
 A frog dress, lives in a castle and will
 A museum marry a prince
 A mug
 A library
 A newspaper
 A plane
 A flower

5.  Points to the particular person / thing
Ex. The person who brought us the coffee had
very nice eyes.
The house where she lives is very far.
 Has no commas!!!
 Relative pronouns (not always obligatory):
1/ who
2/ which
3/ that

6.  In defining relative clauses we might drop the
relative pronoun completely:
if the subject of defining clause is an object of
main clause
Ex. The book (which) I bought is not ver y
good.
The boy (who/whom) we met
yesterday was Alice’s brother.

7. 1/ This is the house ______ my parents want
to buy.
2/ Who was the girl _____ I saw you talking to?
3/ What do you call the people ____ live in
Scotland?
4/ The postcard ______ I send you was written
on the summit of Ben Nevis.
5/ The school ______ I study is called MG.

8.  Give us only further information about
something
 Do not influence the meaning of the
sentence
 We can leave them out completely
 We use commas!!!
Ex. John Grisham, who writes about legal
things, is my favourite author.

9.  Relative pronouns:
1/ who
2/ which
 In non-defining relative clauses the relative
pronoun must be always present!!!

10. 1/ My students who never do their homework will fail the exam.
2/ Valencia, which is Spain's third largest city, is on the
Mediterranean coast.
3/ That dog whose bone you took is going to bite your leg of f.
4/ They want to show me their new car they bought in Germany.
5/ The tree in front of my house, which I used to climb as a child,
had to be cut down.

11. WHAT vs WHICH
 WHAT is not a relative pronoun
 We cannot say:
Ex. Tell me something what I do not know.
 We must say:
Ex. Tell me something that I do not know.

12.  Relative clauses with who, which, that as
subject can be replaced with a participle:
Ex. I told you about the strange guy who lives next
door.
I told you about the strange guy living next
door.