FCE2 - Unit 17

Relative clauses

Monday/Tuesday's powerpoint on relative clauses is here

Defining and Non-defining

A defining relative clause tells which noun we are talking about:

• I like the woman who lives next door.
  (If I don't say 'who lives next door', then we don't know which woman I mean).

A non-defining relative clause gives us extra information about something. We don't need this information to understand the sentence.

• I live in London, which has some fantastic parks.
  (Everybody knows where London is, so 'which has some fantastic parks' is extra information).

Extra exercises:

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/relative-clauses-exercise-1.html

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/relative-clauses-exercise-2.html

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/relative-clauses-exercise-3.html

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/relative-clauses-exercise-4.html

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses/exercises?07

http://www.e-grammar.org/relative-clauses/test1-exercise1/

Who, Whom and Whose

This is the worksheet we used in class