Relative Clauses

¿When to use relative clauses?

We use relative clauses to give additional information about something without starting another sentence. By combining sentences with a relative clause, your text becomes more fluent and you can avoid repeating certain words.

A relative clause  gives more information about the person or thing one is talking about. For example,

The girls who work at that shop are really friendly.

Does the bus that goes to the airport stop here?



Defining relative clauses.

Relative clauses provide specific information on the background so fundamental that are essential to the whole sentence makes sense.

Who: This is used when the antecedent refers to a person or persons. It may be a name or a pronoun example:
The man who is standing near the Doctor is the director.

That: is used when the antecedent is a thing or several. It is also used to refer to people such as:
That is not the story That Is Told in the book.

Which: Used to refer to things such as:
The ring she WAS wearing Which Belongs To Me

Whose: Express possession and can not be ignored, but never acts as a subject ejmplo:
The castle towers Whose appearsin Were this so old tale.

Where: It is also a relative adverb is used to refer to a time. That may be substituted or omitted simply example:
The day (when / that) While the price was very Snow met important to him.

Non-defining relative clauses:

Add additional information on the background, ie it is not necessary to understand the sentence. For that reason they always commas example:

My Friend Who lives in Italy, Became a doctor.

Their house, Which was quite expensive, Is not very big

Want + Infinitive / + Object + Infinitive Want

EXAMPLE:

They caught the man who / that spied for China.

I lost the map which / that she gave me.

 She complained to the man whose dog bit her.

Christmas Day is a day when people are happy.
 
We visited the house where our father was born.
 
Mata Hari, who was a famous female spy, was born in Holland.
Buckingham Palace, which is in London, is a favourite tourist site.