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Relative Clauses — Revision Notes
ICSE · Class 8 · English Language: Grammar and Composition
Relative Clauses revision notes for ICSE Class 8 English Language: Grammar and Composition: 4 topics in quick points.
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1. What a Relative Clause Does
- A relative clause gives detailed information about a person, place, thing, or idea.
- It usually follows the noun or pronoun it describes.
- It helps show which person or thing is meant, or what kind of person or thing is meant.
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2. Relative Pronouns and Relative Adverbs
- who is used for people.
- which is used for things.
- that can usually replace both who and which.
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3. Use of that
- that can normally replace both who and which.
- that is compulsory after superlative adjectives.
- that is compulsory after words like all, any, anything, none, nothing.
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4. Omission of who, which, and that
- Who, which, and that can be omitted when they are the object of the relative clause.
- They cannot be omitted when they are the subject of the relative clause.
- Prepositions in relative clauses are often placed at the end.
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A relative clause is a subordinateWho is used for peopleWhich or that is usedThat can normally replace both whoWhat means the thing(s)
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Key topics in Relative Clauses include What a Relative Clause Does, Relative Pronouns and Relative Adverbs, Use of that, Omission of who, which, and that. Study these first, then practise questions on each for Class 8 exams.
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