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Relative Clauses

ICSE · Class 8 · English Language: Grammar and Composition

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Topics in Relative Clauses

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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.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Relative Clauses

DefinitionRelative wordsWhoWhich and thatWhoseWhomWhereWhat

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