Relative Pronouns For Intermediate learners
This lesson covers Relative Pronouns with clear explanations and easy examples to help you understand them better.
What Are Relative Pronouns?
Relative pronouns introduce relative clauses. Relative pronouns allow speakers and writers to add more information about a noun or pronoun in a sentence, and to clarify its identity or characteristics.
Types of Relative Pronouns
There are two types of relative pronouns:
Defining: it is essential to the meaning of the sentence
Non-defining: it is not essential to the meaning of the sentence
Where Do We Place Relative Pronouns?
We place relative pronouns directly after the noun or pronoun they are referring to. Look at the following examples:
This is the car which Jake bought. (non-defining)
The girl who is wearing a black hat is my friend. (defining)
Tim Berners-Lee is the man that invented the World Wide Web. (defining)
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