jueves, 14 de marzo de 2013

DEFINING AND NON DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

What's a relative clause?

It's a clause that modifies a noun or noun phrase and is introduced by a relative pronoun.


What's a defining relative clause?

It's what gives essential information about the noun or noun phrase it modifies, without which the sentence wouldn'nt make sense as the listner or reader would not be able to identify the noun in the sentence. 


What's a Non-Defining Relative Clause?

It's what gives extra information about a noun or noun phrase and has commas at both ends.


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She is the singer who died last year.
This is the song who was the soundtrack of the movie The Bodyguard
The singer, who sang this song, was Whitney Houston
The man, who is the protagonist of this video, is Kevin Costner.

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