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Relative Clauses

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    Answer the questions about relative clauses
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  • What is a relative clause?
    A sentence that describes someone or something
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  • What are the two kinds of relative clauses?
    Defining and non-defining
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  • What is a defining relative clause?
    A sentence that identifies or describes a person, thing, time, place or reason
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  • What is a non-defining relative clause?
    A sentence that gives extra information which can be omitted
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  • What do we use 'who' for?
    To talk about people
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  • What are the relative pronouns?
    who, which, that, whose, when, where, why and whom
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  • What do we use 'that' for?
    To talk about people or things
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  • What do we use 'where' for?
    To talk about places
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  • What do we use 'whose' for?
    To talk about possession
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  • What do we use 'which' for?
    To talk about things or to make a comment about a situation
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  • What do we use 'when' for?
    To talk about time
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  • What do we use 'why' for?
    To give a reason
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  • What do we use 'whom' for?
    After prepositions in formal contexts
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  • When can 'that/who/which' be omitted?
    When they refer to the object in the relative clause
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  • Which type of relative clause takes commas?
    Non-defining relative clauses
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  • Which relative pronouns must we use after expressions of quantity, e.g. some of/none of, etc.?
    which, whom or whose
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