Bài 15: RELATIVE CLAUSES (PHẦN 1)

Contents
- What are relative clauses?
- Relative pronouns
- Leaving out the relative pronoun

What are relative clauses?
Who's that?

Pablo Picasso, who died in 1973, was a painter and sculptor.

Relative pronouns
which: things
that: people & things; more common in speech

- The bus which goes to Cairo leaves from here.
- The road that we took let to an ancient temple.
- The woman that we spoke to gave us directions.
Who & whom: people (subject & object)
- The people who live next door make a lot of noise.
- The people that live next door make a lot of noise.
- It was the same boy whom I met.
- It was the same boy who I met.
- It was the same boy that I met.
Whose: possession
- Thi girl whose case had been stolen went to the police station.

- The man whose company has just gone bankrupt has already founded a new business.
- The boy whose father is the school principal is my best friend.
When: time
Where: place
Why: reason
- Now is the time when we should stand together.
- This is the house where I lived as a child.
- That's the reason why she left.

Leaving out the relative pronoun
The doctor who treated me told me not to worry.
- The doctor treated me told me not to worry. X

The doctor that/who/whom I spoke to told me not to worry.
- The doctor I spoke to told me not to worry.

Pablo Picasso, who died in 1973, was a painter and sculptor.
Pablo Picasso, died in 1973, was a painter and sculptor. X

That was the best meal (that) I've ever eaten!

In the test
1. Starting pay is $27,000 a year for 5 nine-hour days _______ include an hour for lunch.
A. this
B. who
C. when
D. that
2. Mr. Freeland, who will retire from Sunrise when Ms. Ocampo takes over his position next month, _______ at the company for 25 years.
A. who works
B. worked
C. had worked
D. who had worked
3. This is the house _______ I bought.
A. where
B. which
C. who
D. when