1. GRAMMAR FOR IELTS
Group 10
1. Phuong Dang Khanh
2. Pham Dinh Khiem
3. Nguyen Van Bo
4. Chu Xuan Huy

2. RELATIVE CLAUSES

3. CONTENT
RELATIVE PRONOUNS
DEFINING RELATIVE
CLAUSES
NON-DEFINING
RELATIVE CLAUSES
PREPOSITIONS

4. RELATIVE CLAUSES

5. RELATIVE CLAUSES
1. Subject and Object
Relative clauses give extra information about a
noun in the main clause. They can refer to this as
subject or object.
E.g:
“That’s the woman who bought my car”
“That’s the flat that I was looking for”
Subject
Object

6. RELATIVE PRONOUNS
 Mark a relative clause
 Provide more information

7. RELATIVE PRONOUNS
 Who
 Which
 That
 Whose
 Where
 When
 Why

8. Who People
The girl who is smiling
is a singer.

9. Which Things
The book which I bought
last week is not as
interesting as I thought.

10. `That Things and
people
Is this the house that you bought ?
Have you met the boy that Sue
is going to marry ?

11. Whose Possession
Do you know the
boy whose mother is a nurse?

12. Where Places
This is the house where he
lived when he first came to
the United States.

13. When Times
That’s the moment when I
met Steve Jobs.

14. Why The reason or
reasons
Now I understand
the reason why you didn’t
tell me the truth.

15. 2. Defining relative clauses
Example 1:
1, I have an apple.
2, I have an apple
which is on the table

16. Example 2:
1, I have a friend. 2, I have a friend
standing in front of the
door.

17. Definition:
Give information after a
noun to identify the noun
clearly.

18. Non-defining relative clauses
•Extra, non-essential information about
something
•More common in written language.

19. Non- defining relative clauses
 Notes
 Not use the relative pronoun that
 Be separated from the main clause with
commas
For example: Gangnam Style, which is
very famous in the world, is a Korean
song.

20. Non-defining relative clauses
 Not leave out the relative pronoun
For example: My pen, which I bought
yesterday, costs 2 dollars.

21. Non-defining relative clauses
 Refer to a single noun phrase or a whole
clause
For example: Ronaldo, whom you met at my
birthday party, is my close friend.
She leaves me, which makes me so sad.

22. Differences
Defining relative
clauses
Non-defining relative
clauses
•Indentify the thing that you
talk about
•Give additional, non-essential
information
•That can replace who or
which
•That cannot be used
•Pronoun can be left out if it
refers to the object
•Pronoun cannot be left out
•No commas •Must have commas

23. Prepositions
 Come at the end of the clauses in spoken
English
For example: You are the only friend that I
believe in.

24. Prepositions
 Stand before which or whom in formal style
For example: Tourist guide is the job for
which I will apply in the future.

25. Grammar extra: Common
collocations with relative pronouns
 The one: be used with defining relative
clauses.
For example: My mother is the one whom I
love most.

26. Grammar extra: Common
collocations with relative pronouns
 Where: be used after the situation, the
stage or the point
For example: They are in the situation where
they have to face with the death.

27. Exercise
I ….. the woman is waiting
for have a girlfriend.
whom

28. CONGRATULATIONS !!!!

29. Exercise
It took me a while to get used
to people …… eat popcorn
during the movie.
who

30. Exercise
Choose 1 in 3:
They blamed me for everything
....... went wrong.
X Whose That

31. Exercise
The film, ...... lasted for three hours,
was boring
That Which X

32. Exercise
Silicon Valley is the
place …… new products
were invented.
where

33. Exercise
 The car ____ was stolen belonged to my
partner.
which
that
Either could be used here.

34. Exercise
I cannot trace the letter
………… you refer.to which

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