Relative Clause

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Relative Clause

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Relative(adjective)clause

• A relative clause is a subordinate clause that
  modifies a noun.

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Relatives for Subjects

• Who It is used for persons.
• Which It is used for liveless creatures or
  animals.
• That It is used instead of both who and which.

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Lets do practice

• The man walks slowly.
• He used to be an athlete.
• And now combine these sentences with Relative
  clause.
• The man who/that walks slowly used to be an
  athlete

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• I saw a black cat.
• Black cat is believed to bring bad luck.
• Lets combine them with which/that.
• I saw a black cat which/that is believed to bring
  bad luck.

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Relatives for Objects

• Who, whom, that, (bos) They are used for
  persons as object

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• That is the man.
• We saw him at the meeting.
• Combine them with Relative clause.
• That is the man Who, whom, that, We saw at the
  meeting.

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• Which, that, (bos) They are used for liveless
  or aimals as object.

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• The book was very expensive.
• We bought it.
• The book Which, that, We bought was very
  expensive.

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Time Clause

• When,(prep.)which,that They are used for time
  expressions like day,year time,etc.
• (Prep) prepositions like on,in,at.

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The example of Time

• I will never forget the day.
• I met her on that day.
• I will never forget the day when,on which,that I
  met her.

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Place Clause

• Where,(prep.)which,that They are used for place
  expressions like there.

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The example of Place

• I want to live in a city.
• there is a lot of sunshine there.
• I want to live in a city where,in which,that
  there is a lot of sunshine.

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WHOSE

• WhoseIt is used for both persons and animals
  when there are possesive pronouns in the
  sentence.

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Example

• Can you repair the table?
• Its legs are broken.
• Can you repair the table whose legs are broken.

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OF WHICH

• Of whichIt is rarely used for animals when there
  are possesive pronouns in the sentence.

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• Can you repair the table?
• Its legs are broken.
• Can you repair the table legs of which are
  broken.

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WHY

• When It is used if we say reason after words
  like reason,explanation.

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Example

• I cant explain the reason.
• We cancelled the meeting.
• I cant explain the reason why We cancelled the
  meeting.

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Expressions of Quantity

• Relative clause may include words used with of
  such as most of, none of, two of, half of, both
  of, neither of, each of, etc.
• These words can only be used with whom, which,
  whose .

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• In my English class there are 10 students.
• Most of them are from Izmir.
• In my English class there are 10 students Most of
  whom are from Izmir.

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• I bought five books.
• Two of them are about music.
• I bought five books, two of which are about music.

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• They talked about Mary.
• One of her problems was coming to class late.
• They talked about Mary, one of whose problems was
  coming to class late.

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• Relative Clause sometimes subordinates a whole
  sentence but not a word.
• In this situation Comma(,) which are used for
  subordinate sentence

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• Sule failed the test.
• That shocked all of us.
• Sule failed the test,which shocked all of us.

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Reduction of Relative Clauses

• We can turn relative clause from sentence into a
  clause by reducing the relative word.

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• The boy who is running towards us is my son.
• Now we can write it
• The boy running towards us is my son.

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• Attention
• If you want to do reduction, that who and which
  should subordinate subject, or you cannot do
  reduction.

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• The boy who you met yesterday is my son.
• (You cannot do reduction in this sentence .)
• So subjects should be same in reduction.

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