Relative Clauses

                      Relative Clauses give us more information about the subject or the object of a sentence, but there are two types of relative.

DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES:

             Those which complete the sentence with essential information.

• Who/that for people: There's the man who/that helped me.
• Which/that for objects or animals: This is the computer which/that I broke.
• Where for place: This is the restaurant where we first met.
• Whose for possession: That's the stupid woman whose dog bit me.
• When for time: Do you remember the time when Mary and Jack come to stay?
• Why for reason: He gave the reason why he couldn't came.
• Whom * (in more formal written or spoken English whom ii used as the object pronoun): Here is the man whom we told you about.

NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES:

               Those which give extra information that is not absolutely  essential  for the main meaning of the sentence. In written English we separate them from the main clause by commas.

Now check what you've learned in this hotpotatoes exercise!!