We form Relative Clauses by using relative pronouns and relative pronouns to join two clauses together.
Who is a subject or object pronoun for people.
"Have you met the man who works with me?"
Whose is a possessive for people animals and things.
I have written ten descriptions of jobs bellow but I have scrambled up the letters of the job titles. Can you rewrite them correctly? What job would you like to do? Or what job are you doing at the moment? Here's another question for you, what job do you think is the best job in the world? Take care! Caroline
Let's take an intermediate level look at relative clauses.
A relative clause tells us which thing or person the speaker means.
"The man who works in the bank is my brother" - 'who works in the bank' tells us which man.
Eat - Ate - Eaten. 'Eaten' is a past participle verb, but how and when is it used? Here's a quick review and quiz.
The past participle is used in both active and passive sentences:
When someone asks you "What do you do?" they mean "What is your job"?
Let's take a look at a few jobs! Do you know what these people do?
'It's my brother who lives in Brighton.'
We use relative clauses to give extra information about something. We can get more information into a sentence without the need to start a new one.
There are two types of relative clauses: defining and non-defining:
