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[D] Relative Clauses

LET'S READ! 📖

Direction: Read the short passage then answer the questions being asked.

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QUESTIONS

1. What did the four friends do the night before the exam?

2. What lie did they tell the director?

3. Do you think the four students will pass the exam? Why or why not?

LET'S UNDERSTAND! 📚

I. Relative clauses

1. A relative clause gives us more information about a noun.

    Example:

  • A team has eight players who take turns throwing the ball against the wall.

    • (gives more information about the players)


  • A fronton is a court that has three walls.

    • (gives more information about the court)

2. Many relative clauses begin with the relative pronouns who, which or that.

Use who to refer to a person

Paul Newman was one famous person who played the sport.

Use which to refer to a thing, an animal or an idea.

It is an exciting sport which many people think is the fastest ball game in the world.

Use that instead of who or which in informal English.

Football is a team ball game that is played in many countries.

3. When the relative pronoun is the object of the relative clause we do not need to repeat the object pronoun.

    Example:

  • Handball is a game. People have played it for centuries.

    • Handball is a game which people have played for centuries.

    NOT Handball is a game which people played it for centuries.

4. We can leave out the relative pronoun when it is the object of the relative clause.

    Example:

  • Handball is a game which people have played for centuries.

  • Handball is a game people have played for centuries.

LET'S PRACTICE! 📝

Direction: Answer this survey using the relative pronouns (who, which, that).

    Example:

  • Delicious Japanese food

    • Curry is an easy-to-make dish that a lot of Japanese people love.

Survey