RELATIVE CLAUSES

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• Defining
• They provide essential information about the
  subject. If we took out this data the sentence
  would be incomplete
• Non-Defining
• They add extra information about their
  antecedent, that is why it goes between commas

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PRONOUNS

• WHO / THAT refer to people
• WHICH / THAT refers to objects and animals
• WHEN / THAT refer to a moment in time
• WHERE refers to a particular place
• WHOSE refers to possession

• People who live in the country live longer
• Thats the house which we bought last week
• It was 1975 when David was born
• Spain is the country where people spend more time
  outside home
• Shes the girl whose father works in the factory

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• THAT can never be used between commas, that is,
  in defining sentences
• THAT / WHICH / WHO can be omitted when they are
  not the subject of the relative clause
• Alcatraz was the place (that) I enjoyed most
• WHY can be omitted or changed by THAT
• Tell me the reason WHY / THAT you are blue
• When the verb in the relative clause is followed
  by a preposition (on, to, for, with)
• Formal way David is a great colleague IN WHOM I
  can trust
• Informal way David is a great colleague (WHO) I
  can trust IN