RELATIVE CLAUSES

We use relative clauses to give more informations about something without having to start a new sentences.

1 That man over there is called Bill Gates. 2 He started microsoft.

That man over there, whos called Bill Gates, started Microsoft.

WHO / THAT


For people Whats the name of the man who created the Internet.
WATCH OUT! We can use who for animals when we give them a personality. * Our dog, whos called Benji, is eight years old.

WHICH / THAT


for things and animals The experiment which worked was the last one.

WHERE


For places This is the town where Albert Einstein was born.

WHOSE


To show possession Thats the man whose sister discovered a new planet.

REMEMBER !


When there is a relative pronoun, remember not to repeat the subject / object. * Whats the name of the man who he created
the World Wide Web?

* This is the experiment which Im doing it at the

moment.

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which Theres a film on tonight ______ I really want to see. where Do you know any restaurants ______ they serve vegetarian dishes? who Can you remember ______ told you about the new nightclub? which The film, ______ starts Tom Hanks, is based on book by Dan Brown. whose Ive never met anyone before ______mother was famous. who Lorenzo, ______ is from Spain originally, has lived here for about ten years. whose Carla, ______ parents are from Mexico, was born in the UK. where Heres a photo of the hotel ______ we stayed.