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RELATIVE CLAUSES 1"BTO We use relative clauses to give additional information about something without starting another sentence. By combining sentences with a relative clause, your text becomes more fluent and you can avoid repeating certain words. Example: Do you know the girl who is talking to Tom? ativ n Relative pronoun Use Example Das (quien, pes or object pronoun for people told you about the woman who lives next door. sel uienes, que) | lo you see the cat which is lying on | hich (que, Subject or object pronoun for animals and things Vla cual, Joss cuales, loque) [Whose for peopleyanimals and things (cuyo/a/os/as) | nurse? E hat (que) ubject or object pronoun for ima) don't like the table fhat stands in the ings in defining relative clauses (who or which itchen. re also possible) 'Á a A APO 1 AA Relative Adverbs. Relative a ddverb Use Example hen ES to a time expression hat is the day when we met (cuando) Jin him. a ] Where (donde)refers to a place his is the place where we met | L ¿Jo ? him. É A 40) Especdico lives , su COLOS; d. infprmación excucial qu ebader la oración. finin lative Cl We use defining relative clauses to give essential information about the person or thing in the main clause. Defining relative clauses are not put in commas. Example: A seaman is someone who works on a ship. pe Exqlicakivas; com comas, de ielocmaión cubres, Non- i jye Cla We use non-defining relative clauses clause. The extra information is not essen to give extra information about the person or thing in the main tial. Non-defining relative clauses are put in commas. Example: Robbie Williams” Millennium, which is one of his most successful singles, was released in 1999. tPr If the relative pronoun (who, which or that) is followed by a verb, the relative pronoun is a subject pronoun. Subject pronouns must always be used. Ex: 1 want the apple which ¿s lying on the table which or that) is not followed by a verb (but by a noun or pronoun), the Tf the relative pronoun (who, > ronouns can be dropped in defining relative clauses. relative pronoun is an object pronoun. Object p Ex: This is the apple (which) George bought.