To examine relative clauses further (or even farther), let’s begin with two brief independent clauses: Here’s an important point: The antecedent of the relative pronoun is always the noun modified by the relative clause. The relative pronoun appears in the relative clause, and the antecedent of the pronoun is in the independent clause. Second, as pronouns, they stand in for nouns. First, relative pronouns connect their own clause to another clause, which is usually independent. Relative pronouns play two roles in a sentence. They cannot be moved around like subordinate clauses, but always appear after the nouns they modify. Relative clauses modify nouns in a sentence. The car, which is a total wreck, is a Chevrolet. The woman whose car you hit is my neighbor.
( Whom is the objective form of who whose is the possessive.) Committing these five relative pronouns to memory will helpĪs you’ll see in the examples below, relative pronouns begin THEY’RE ALL RELATIVE The relative pronouns are
The first that we’ll examine is based on the relative pronouns the second is based on the relative adverbs. In this chapter we learn about another kind of dependent clause, the relative clause.
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