Defining Relative Clauses
Relative clauses – defining relative clauses Relative clauses add extra information to a sentence by defining a noun. They are usually divided into two types – defining relative clauses and non-defining relative clauses . Defining relative clauses Look at this sentence: The woman who lives next door works in a bank. ‘ who lives next door ’ is a defining relative clause . It tells us which woman we are talking about. Look at some more examples: Look out! There’s the dog that bit my brother. The film that we saw last week was awful. This is the skirt I bought in the sales. Can you identify the defining relative clauses ? They tell us which dog, which film and which skirt we are talking about. Relative pronouns Relative clauses are usually introduced by a relative pronoun (usually who , which , that , but when , where and whose are also possible) With definin...
