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Level 6 Unit 5a Grammar Guide

The document discusses relative clauses, providing examples and explanations of defining and non-defining relative clauses. It defines relative pronouns like who, which, that, where, and whose. It provides examples of relative clauses and exercises for adding relative pronouns and commas to sentences containing relative clauses.

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Level 6 Unit 5a Grammar Guide

The document discusses relative clauses, providing examples and explanations of defining and non-defining relative clauses. It defines relative pronouns like who, which, that, where, and whose. It provides examples of relative clauses and exercises for adding relative pronouns and commas to sentences containing relative clauses.

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LEVEL 6 Unit 10A

RELATIVE CLAUSES
S S V V
THE MOTORCYCLE, / WHICH IS MY BROTHER’S, / IS IN THE GARAGE.

This is because a relative clause is two simple sentences joined together. In other words:

S V
THE MOTORCYCLE IS IN THE GARAGE.

S V
THE MOTORCYCLE IS MY BROTHERS.
RELATIVE CLAUSES
Defining relative clauses (giving essential information)

USAGE:

To give important information about a person, place, or thing use a relative clause (=a relative pronoun + subject) + verb.

1. Use the relative pronoun who / that for people, that / which for things / animals, and where for places.

● That is more common that which in defining clauses.


● You cannot omit who / which / that / where in this kind of clause. NOT Brissa’s the woman works in the office with me.

1. Use whose to mean “of who” or “of which”

1. who, which, and that can be omitted when the verbs in the main clause and the relative clause have a different subject,
e.g., He’s the boy I met on the plane.

● where and whose can never be omitted, e.g., NOT Is that the woman dog barks?
EXAMPLES
1. Olympia’s the woman who / that works in the office with me.

It’s a self-help book that / which teaches you how to relax.

That’s the apartment where I was born.

1. Is Logan the man whose brother plays for the Lakers?

It’s a plant whose leaves change color in spring.

1. I just got a text from the boy (who / that) I met on the flight to London.

This is the new phone (that / which ) I bought yesterday.


RELATIVE CLAUSES
USAGE:

● Non.defining relative clauses give extra (often


non-essential information) in a sentence. If this clause is
omitted, the sentence still makes sense.

This painting, (Not) which was painted in 1860, is


worth millions of dollars.

● Non-defining relative clauses must go between


commas (or a comma and a period).

● In these clauses, you can’t leave out the relative


pronoun (who, which, etc.)

● In these clauses, you can’t use that instead of who /


which. NOT This painting, that was painted in 1860, is
worth millions of dollars.
RELATIVE CLAUSES
EXAMPLE:

● This painting, which was made in 1860, is worth millions


of dollars.

● Last week I visited my uncle, who’s nearly 90 years old.

● Varenna, where my grandfather was born, is a beautiful


little town in Italy.

● My cousin, whose son goes to my son’s school, has just


remarried.
PRACTICE & follow the instructions below

a) Complete with who, which, that, where, or whose.

Dobbs Ferry is the area where Mark Zuckerberg grew up.

1. Dylan and Elodie, have twins, often need a babysitter.


2. The Blue House, the president of the Republic of Korea lives, is in Jongno-gu, Seoul.
3. The sandwich you made me yesterday was delicious.
4. The man lived here before us was a writer.
5. Diana Wayne Jones, books form the Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy, died in 2011.
6. My laptop is a lot faster than the one you bought.
7. The Mona Lisa, has been damaged several times, is now displayed behind bulletproof glass.
8. Look! That’s the old woman dog bit me last week.
9. On our last vacation we visited Frankfurt, Anne Frank was born.
10. We all went to the game except Annabeth, doesn’t like basketball.
11. That woman you saw at the party was my girlfriend!
12. That’s the playground I learned to ride bike.
PRACTICE & follow the instructions below

b) Add commas where necessary in the sentences.

Clarisse, who lives next door to me, is beautiful.

1. This is the place where Luke crashed his motorcycle.


2. The museum that we visited yesterday was amazing.
3. London which is one of the world’s biggest cities
hosted the 2012 Olympic Games.
4. Michael Jackson’s Thriller which was released in 1982
was one of the best-selling albums of the 80s.
5. These are shoes that I’m wearing to party tonight.
6. Nancy and Tyson who got married last year are
expecting their first baby.
PRACTICE & follow the instructions below

c) Find the Relative Clauses in the text

1. THE MACINTOSH CLASSIC was the personal computer that was made by Apple in
1990. It had 9-inch monochrome screen and a 4 megabyte (MB) memory. It was
cheaper than earlier Apple computers and very easy to use.It was their first
commercially successful computer.

1. STEPHEN WOZNIAK is the American computer engineer and programmer whose


computer designs became the original Apple I and Apple II computers. He and Steve
Jobs became friends when they were both working at Hewlett Packard. They started
making computers in Jobs’s parents’ garage, and together they founded Apple
Computers (now Apple Inc.) in 1976.
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