RELATIVE CLAUSE:
- give more information about something
RELATIVE PRONOUNS:
●WHO: for people
●WHOM: for object (people)
●WHICH: for things
●THAT: people & things (only in drc)
●WHOSE: possesion
DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSE: tell which noun we’re talking about
1. The relative pronoun is the subject:
“she has a son who/that is a doctor”. // “She bought a house which/that is 200 years old”.
WE CAN’T OMIT THE RELATIVE PRONOUN
2. The ralative pronoun is the object:
“She loves the chocolate (which/that) I bought”. // “The police arrested a man (who/that) Jill worked
with”
WE CAN OMIT THE RELATIVE PRONOUN
NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSE: give us extra information
●We DON’T use that
●We use which→ things // who→ people
●We use COMAS
●We CAN’T omit the relative pronoun even if the relative pronoun is the subject of the clause
●“My boss, who is very nice, lives in London”
WHOSE & WHO’S:
●Whose → POSSESIVE “The little girl, whose doll was lost, is sad.”
●Who’s → Who is/Who has
MODAL VERBS
- can: ability & requests (present)
- can’t: ability & requests (present)
- could: ability & requests (past)
- couldn’t: ability & requests (past)
- be able to: ability
- didn’t need to: “no necessitas…”
- must: obligation
- mustn’t: prohibition
- managed to: “arreglarselas”
- needn’t: “no necessitas…”
- don’t have to: “no tienes que”
- should: advice
- shouldn’t: advice
- ought to: advice
- might: possibility & certainty
- may: possibility & certainty
