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Notes

Relative Clauses

Anabel Ruiz English 4º de ESO English 2 pages

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Relative Clauses

Las relative clauses dan información esencial o adicional sobre una persona o algo que ya se había mencionado antes.

1) Defining relative clauses (oración subordinada especificativa):

Proporcionan información esencial y necesaria para que entendamos de qué nos están hablando: She's the woman who helped me yesterday! (¡Ella es la mujer que me ayudó ayer!). Si quitásemos la relative clause (who helped me yesterday), no entenderíamos del todo la oración y querríamos saber más: She's the woman! (¡Ella es la mujer!). Vale, ¿pero qué mujer? En este caso no ponemos una coma separando la oración.

2) Non-defining relative clauses (oraciones subordinadas explicativas):

Añaden información adicional sobre la cosa o persona a la que nos referimos, pero no es vital para entender la situación: The woman, who is my neighbour, helped me yesterday (La mujer, que es mi vecina, me ayudó ayer). En este caso, la relative clause es prescindible, ya que sin ella la oración seguiría teniendo sentido: The woman helped me yesterday (La mujer me ayudó ayer). Estas oraciones sí llevan comas.

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Relative pronouns

Relative pronouns introduce relative clauses. The most common relative pronouns are who, whom, whose, which, that. The relative pronoun we use depends on what we are referring to and the type of relative clause.

who people and sometimes pet animals defining and non-defining

which animals and things defining and non-defining; clause referring to a whole sentence

that people, animals and things; informal defining only

whose possessive mean for people and animals usually;

sometimes for things in formal situations defining and non-defining

whom people in formal styles or in writing; often with a preposition;

rarely in conversation; used instead of who if who is the object defining and non-defining

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4º de ESO English Note on Relative Clauses, created by Anabel Ruiz on 15/11/2021.
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