RELATIVE CLAUSES

The girl who I met yesterday lives in Paris

They girl, who lives in Paris, loves reading novels

These sentences are quite similar, both include: 

  • They include a similar subject
  • A relative pronoun: WHO that links both sentences
  • This part is called RELATIVE CLAUSE, a clause which acts as an adjective, describing the subject of the sentence. 

Then, let's focus on the difference between both types of relative clauses. Look at the following mind map:

RELATIVE CLAUSES. GRAMMAR. JUANA MORAL'S ENGLISH SITE