مدونة التربية و التعليم في الجزائر – دروس، فروض، نتائج امتحانات مدونة التربية والتعليم في الجزائر | تحضير الدروس، فروض واختبارات، نتائج البكالوريا وBEM، مسابقات التوظيف، والتوجيه المدرسي للطلاب وأولياء الأمور.
Relative Clauses: Defining and Non-defining
1. Defining Relative Clauses
Essential information, no commas. Who (people): The student who studies will succeed. Which/That (things): The book which I bought is interesting. Whose (possession): The man whose car was stolen called police.
2. Non-defining Relative Clauses
Extra information, with commas. My mother, who is a doctor, works at hospital. Paris, which is the capital, is beautiful. Cannot use ‘that’.
3. Summary
- Who = people (subject)
- Whom = people (object, formal)
- Which = things
- That = people/things (defining only)
- Whose = possession
Exercises
- Complete: The girl ______ is sitting there is my friend.
- Join: I have a car. It is fast. → I have a car ______.
See Conjunctions and Short Story.