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RELATIVE CLAUSES - Coggle Diagram
RELATIVE CLAUSES
Non-defining relative clauses
Non-defining relative clauses do NOT define or identify the noun
Non-defining relative clauses are common in written English
Non-defining relative clauses give us more information about a noun
Punctuation Rules
We uses commas when writting non-defining relative clauses.
Example: We visited Hyde Park, which is closes to Buckingham Palace, is closes today. (we can see that the comma separated the non-defining relative clause from the rest of the sentence.
Relative Pronouns
Who: For people / subject or object pronoun
Whom: For people / object pronoun
Which: For things or animals / subject or object pronoun
"Who", "Which" and "Whom" are never replaced by that
We never use "that" in non-defining relative clauses
Whose: For people or things / possesive
The relative pronoun of a non-defining relative clause can never be omitted
Relative Pronouns
Object pronoun
Whom
for people
Which and that
for things and animals
Subject pronoun
Who
for people
Which and that
for things and animals
Possesive pronoun
Whose
for people or things
Defining Relative Clauses
Identify the noun more clearly
They make it clear which person or thing are talking about
Example: The hamburguer that is in the table it is mine
They allow us to write complex sentences
We link the relative clause to the noun with the
relative pronoun
Position of prepositions
Formal
before the relative pronoun
Informal
At the end of the relative clause
Punctuation Rule
We do not use commas when writing defining relative clause
We only use commas when writing non-defining relative clauses
Abimael Navarro, Galo Castrejón, Diego Sánchez