Name: How to Give Extra Details in English (with Relative Clauses)
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T10:06:02.000Z
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My name is Alicia, and today we're going to talk about how to explain details with relative clauses.

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A relative clause is like a long adjective.

So adjectives are words that give us more information about knowns.

So, for example, interesting or boring or beautiful or delicious, these are all adjectives.

A relative clause is like a group of words together that has the same function, or it acts the same way as an adjective.

So this is what we're going to focus on today to give lots of details in our sentences.

So the second point relative clauses give us extra information about now, so let's take a look at two examples.

Both of these sentences use relative clauses.

1st 1 My phone, which is an iPhone success, has terrible battery life these days.

So one more time my iPhone or sorry, My phone, which is an iPhone success, has terrible battery life.

These days, this sentence uses a relative clause.

I like the movies that Christopher Nolan makes.

So these sentences both use relative clauses.

They are here in this sentence and here in this sentence.

So there are two kinds of relative clauses were going to talk about both of them today.

So first point about making this about giving extra details With today's grammar point, relative clauses begin with something called a relative pronoun, a relative pronoun.

For today we're going to focus on three relative pronouns.

They are that which and who So when you make a relative clause the basic form of a relative clause, the first word will be a relative pronoun in this case, my phone, which is an iPhone success, which is a relative pronoun, it begins my extra information here.

I like the movies that Christopher Nolan makes here.

My relative clause is this part and it begins with that.

So this is a relative pronoun these a relative brownout.

Today we're going to look at these three relative pronouns.

You can use that And who, when you're talking about people, people here.

So in this case, I'm talking about a phone in my first example sentence in my second example sentence.

Second, you can use that or which four objects.

So objects that means things, not people you might also here.

Sometimes people use who to talk about their pets as well.

I'm not going to talk about pets in my example sentences today, but for your information.

So, uh, another common question, though, is what's the difference between that and which, like, in this case, that in which for objects, But how do I decide?

Should I use that for which this point is a little more advanced, so I will cover it briefly for today.

The difference is in what's called restrictive relative clauses and non restrictive relative clauses.

So these, like, really like complex air may be difficult to understand words, but they mean a restrictive clause is something that gives us essential information essential information about the now.

So this means if I don't have this relative clause, I don't understand the noun.

So, for example, in this example sentence, I like the movies that Christopher Nolan makes.

If I remove the relative clause here, my sentence becomes I like the movies and run.

We don't know, like, what does that mean?

I like the movies, will, Which movies we don't know.

We must have this information to understand this.

Now, if we do not have this information, we cannot understand this now.

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