Relative clause

IDENTIFYING RELATIVE CLAUSES

SAMPLE SENTENCES

• You can see people that have got rings.
• And they are in lots of other places that you can’t see too!
• Mick Shannon, who is a qualified body piercer, took me to his salon.
• He finished by giving the girl advice on how to help the skin get better, which was a nice professional touch.

Words

• Words are the smallest meaningful bits of a sentence.
• Example: An old man is carrying a sack of money.
• Each word has their own class.
• Carry is a verb – it tells us what happens.
• Man is a noun – it names things.
• Old is an adjective – it modifies a noun.
• We put words together to make a phrase/clause /sentence.

Phrases

• A phrase is a group of related words that does not include a subject and verb.
• several people
• the story
• the long and winding road

Clause

• A clause is a group of related words containing a subject and a verb
• An independent clause - which could be its own sentence
• "She is older than her brother"
• dependent clauses – which can’t stand by themselves 

Sentences

• A sentence may consist of two or more clauses together.
• Corruption affects you even if you don’t get close to it.

Relative Clauses

• Relative clauses are dependent clauses introduced by a Relative Pronoun (that, which, whichever, who, whoever, whom, whomever, whose, and of which).

Relative Clause

• The boy is my brother.

• Which boy are you talking about?

• He is wearing a cap.

• Oh I see! The boy who is wearing a cap is your brother.

DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSE

• FUNCTION:
• Defining Relative Clause is used to identify the person or thing we are talking about.