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Relative Clause ÖZCAN KALAYLI 1090610170
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Relative(adjective)clause ► A relative clause is a subordinate clause that modifies a noun. subordinate clausenounsubordinate clausenoun
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Relatives for Subjects ► ► Who: It is used for persons. ► ► Which: It is used for liveless creatures or animals. ► ► That: It is used instead of both who and which.
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Let’s do practice The man walks slowly. He used to be an athlete. And now combine these sentences with Relative clause. The man who/that walks slowly used to be an athlete
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► I saw a black cat. ► Black cat is believed to bring bad luck. ► Let’s combine them with which/that. ► I saw a black cat which/that is believed to bring bad luck.
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Relatives for Objects ► Who, whom, that, ¤ (boş): They are used for persons as object
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That is the man. We saw him at the meeting. Combine them with Relative clause. That is the man Who, whom, that, ¤ We saw at the meeting.
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► ► Which, that, ¤ (boş): They are used for liveless or aimals as object.
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► The book was very expensive. ► We bought it. ► The book We bought was very expensive. ► The book Which, that, ¤ We bought was very expensive.
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Time Clause ► When,(prep.)+which,that: They are used for time expressions like day,year time,etc. ► (Prep): prepositions like on,in,at.
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The example of Time ► I will never forget the day. ► I met her on that day. ► I will never forget the day when,on which,that I met her.
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Place Clause ► Where,(prep.)+which,that: They are used for place expressions like there.
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The example of Place ► I want to live in a city. ► there is a lot of sunshine there. ► I want to live in a city where,in which,that there is a lot of sunshine.
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WHOSE ► Whose:It is used for both persons and animals when there are possesive pronouns in the sentence.
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Example ► Can you repair the table? ► Its legs are broken. ► Can you repair the table whose legs are broken.
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OF WHICH ► Of which:It is rarely used for animals when there are possesive pronouns in the sentence.
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► Can you repair the table? ► Its legs are broken. ► Can you repair the table legs of which are broken.
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WHY ► When: It is used if we say reason after words like reason,explanation.
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Example ► I can’t explain the reason. ► We cancelled the meeting. ► I can’t explain the reason why We cancelled the meeting.
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Expressions of Quantity ► Relative clause may include words used with ‘of’ such as most of, none of, two of, half of, both of, neither of, each of, etc. ► These words can only be used with “whom, which, whose”.
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► In my English class there are 10 students. ► Most of them are from İzmir. ► In my English class there are 10 students Most of whom are from İzmir.
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► I bought five books. ► Two of them are about music. ► I bought five books, two of which are about music.
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► They talked about Mary. ► One of her problems was coming to class late. They talked about Mary, one of whose problems was coming to class late.
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► Relative Clause sometimes subordinates a whole sentence but not a word. ► In this situation Comma(,) + which are used for subordinate sentence
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► Şule failed the test. ► That shocked all of us. ► Şule failed the test,which shocked all of us.
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Reduction of Relative Clauses ► We can turn relative clause from sentence into a clause by reducing the relative word.
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The boy who is running towards us is my son. Now we can write it : The boy running towards us is my son.
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► Attention: ► If you want to do reduction, that who and which should subordinate subject, or you cannot do reduction.
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► The boy who you met yesterday is my son. ► (You cannot do reduction in this sentence.) ► So subjects should be same in reduction.
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