ADJETIVE CLAUSES:

USE:

Adjetive clauses or relative clauses are

used to identify
nouns (Type 1:
defining) or to add information about
them (Type 2: nondefining)
Usually, the adjetive clause directly follows
the noun it refers to:
That is the man who lives in Granada
My sister,who lives in Granada, is a

RELATIVE PRONOUNS
Relative clauses are introduced by relative pronouns.

1. WHO / WHOM:
Use Who to refer to people. It can be used as
a subject or object of the adjetive clause.
The people who live in Florida were
worried about the forecast of a hurricane.
The people who ( or whom) I told you
about were on vacation in Florida.

2. THAT and WHICH:

Use that and which to refer to places and things.
They can be used as subject or object of the
adjetive clause.
That cannot be used in nonidentifying adjetive
clauses or after a preposition.
Pitsea Beach is the town that/which was hit
by the hurricane.
Pitsea Beach, which is in Florida, was hit by
the hurricane.

3. WHOSE:
Use whose to refer to possesions ( things or
people). It is always followed by the possesion and
is the subject of the adjetive clause.
That is the woman whose husband is a
teacher in Eaton
That woman, whose husband is a teacher in
Eaton, came to my house yesterday.

4. WHERE:
Use where to refer to places.
That is the bank where my husband works.
Deutche bank, where my husband
works,opens on Saturdays.

WRITING PRACTICE:
GANDHI:
1. Gandhi was a politician
2. He led the independence movement in India
3. He studied in London
4. He became a lawyer in London
5. He went to South Africa
6. He became a leader of the Indians in South Africa
7. He returned to India and helped to lead the nationalist

movement

8. This movement won freedom from Britain in 1947

WRITING PRACTICE:
COLUMBUS:
1. Columbus was an explorer
2. He crossed the Atlantic in 1492
3. He wanted to find a sea-route to Asia
4. Many valuable things were made in Asia
5. He discovered a new country
6. He believed the country was a part of Asia
7. He called the people Indians
8. The people lived in the Americas

WRITING PRACTICE:
SHAKESPEARE:
1. Shakespeare was a writer
2. He was born in Stratford in 1567
3. Stratford is a small town
4. It is in the west of England
5. Shakespeare wrote many plays
6. They are still performed today
7. He spent much of his life in London
8. He worked in a theatre in London as a writer and actor

WRITING PRACTICE:
EINSTEIN:
1. Einstein was a great physicist
2. He was born in Germany in 1879
3. He developed an important theory
4. It is Called the theory of relativity
5. He went to live in the USA in 1935 to escape the Nazis
6. The Nazis took power in Germany
7. He continued his work in the USA
8. He died there in 1955