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Relative Clauses - Coggle Diagram
Relative Clauses
Relative pronouns
Which - for things or animals
That
Used to replace who, whom or which
for people or thing (is very common in spoken English)
we never use that in non-defining relative clauses
Who - used it for people (subject or object pronoun)
Whom - also for people but only for object pronoun
-use in a very formal English
Possessive
Whose - for people or things
Defining relative clauses
We link the relative clause to the noun with a relative pronoun
the relative pronoun can be omitted when it is the object of the clause emitted
when the relative pronoun is the object of the clause it cannot be omitted
Function
Make clear with person or thing we are talking about
Help us to identify a noun more clearly
Allow us to write complex sentences
Position of prepositions
before the relative pronoun (formal)
at the end of the relative clause (informal)
who or that aren’t used after prepositions
Non-defining relative clauses
Function
give us more information about a noun
are more common in written English
are more common in written English
the relative pronoun of a non-defining clause can never be omitted
Normally we use "which" to give more information about a specific thing (noun) we can also use "which" to give more information about a clause
Punctuation rule
we only use commas when writing non-defining relative clauses
commas represent a pause
we don’t use commas when writing defining relative clauses