The document discusses relative pronouns and relative clauses. It explains that relative pronouns can refer to things or people in singular or plural form and some pronouns are used for people, others for things, and some for both. It provides examples of relative clauses using who, which, that, and whose to provide additional information about a person, place, animal, or thing.

1. The relative pronouns
may refer to something
or someone in singular
or plural.
Some relative
pronouns can be used
only with people,
others just with things
and some with both.
UNIT 3

2. Use: Give additional information about something (a
noun) linking two ideas.
Match the relative clauses with their uses:
Of who / which.
For places.
For people.
For things.
RELATIVE CLAUSES

3. I told you about the woman. The woman lives next door.
Person
I told you about the woman lives next door.
Subject or object
pronoun for people.

4. Do you see the cat? The cat is lying on the roof.
animal
Do you see the cat is lying on the roof?
Subject or object
pronoun for animals and
things.

5. *Subject or object pronoun for people, animals and
things in informal speaking (who or which are also
possible).
EX:
I don’t like the table stands in the kitchen.
I admire people can do winter sports.

6. Subject or object pronoun
for places.
There’s a big shopping mall. In the shopping mall you can find everything.
place
There’s a big shopping mall you can find everything.

7. *Possession for people animals and
things.
Do you know the boy? The boy’s mother is a nurse.
possessive
Do you know the boy mother is a nurse?

8. WHAT vs WHICH
is a relative pronoun
• We cannot say:
Ex. Tell me something what I do not know.
• We must say:
Ex. Tell me something I don’t know.

12. • … interested (___________)
• … nervous / excited (___________)
• … afraid /fond (___________)
• … good / bad (___________)
• … annoyed (___________)
• … surprised (___________)
• … keen (___________)

13. Bibliography
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/clause-phrase-and-
sentence/verb-patterns/relative-clauses
https://www.espressoenglish.net/relative-clauses-exercises/
http://www.english-4u.de/adj_prep.html
http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/prep_b.htm
http://www.autoenglish.org/prepositions/PrepositionAdjectiveCombinations.htm