📄️ Relative clauses
Relative clauses give us more information about someone or something. We can use relative clauses to combine clauses without repeating information.
📄️ Relative clauses referring to a whole sentence
Some relative clauses refer to a whole clause, a whole sentence, or a longer stretch of language. We always use which to introduce these clauses.
📄️ Relative clauses: defining and non-defining
Defining relative clauses
📄️ Relative clauses: typical errors
When we use a relative pronoun as a subject in the relative clause, we don’t use a personal pronoun or noun:
📄️ Relative pronouns
Relative pronouns introduce relative clauses. The most common relative pronouns are who, whom, whose, which, that. The relative pronoun we use depends on what we are referring to and the type of relative clause.