This document provides a review of relative clauses, which are introduced by relative pronouns or adverbs that refer to the people, things, animals, ideas, or places mentioned earlier in the sentence. The relative pronouns can be who, which, where, or whose. The relative pronoun replaces the noun it refers to. The position of the relative clause in the sentence can vary without causing ungrammaticality.

1. LESSON Nº 2
RELATIVE CLAUSES
REVIEW
They are introduced by relative pronouns/adverbs:
Pronoun Example
People Who / that The man who is smiling is my father
Things,
animals,
ideas
Which / that The book which I bought last week is awful
The cat which we saw in the garden is pretty
Place Where The house where we stayed is comfortable
Possessive Whose The boy whose pants are black is a good
student
Note: The relative pronoun stands in place of a noun.
This noun usually appears earlier in the sentence:
The woman who lives in that house is Spanish
The hotel where she is staying is big and expensive
The dog that has long black ears is brave, be careful!
En algunos casos la posición de la “relative clause” (cláusula relativa) puede variar
sin que esto conlleve a un error gramatical.
- He is the man who won the lottery.
- Gabriel is the boy that is going to participate in the spelling contest.
Noun (subject) + (relative pronoun + complement) + rest of the main clause