Relative clauses in English

1. Relatives

2. Oraciones de relativo
 Las oraciones de relativo dan
información sobre uno de los sustantivos
que aparecen en la oración principal:
The woman who lives in apartment No.34 has
been arrested.

3. Pronombres relativos
Para personas:
Who: The girl who is sitting next to you.
Whom: A man whom I don't know.
Cuando se refiere al Objeto de la
oración
Whose: The film is about a man whose
wife disappears
Posesión

4. Pronombres relativos
Para cosas:
Which: A company which is going to merge
Para ambos:
That: The novels that he writes do not sell.
I saw the woman that stole your bag

5. Adverbios relativos
Adverbio = pronombre + preposicion
When in/on which the day when we met him
Where in/at which the place where we met him
Why for which the reason why we met him

6. Tipos de oraciones relativas
1. Defining (especificativas): identifican a
la persona o cosa de la que estamos
hablando, indican a quién o qué nos
referimos:
She spoke to the man who painted the
house
Se usan en definiciones:
A seaman is a man who works in a ship

7. Defining relative clauses
* Podemos sustituir who y which por that:
Do you know anyone who/that speaks
English?
* Cuando el pronombre relativo (who,
which, that) NO es el sujeto de la oración,
se puede omitir
Is that the book (that) I lent you?

8. Tipos de oraciones relativas
1. Non-Defining (explicativas) : dan
información adicional sobre una
persona o cosa. La oración de relativo
va separada por comas:
My mother, who lives in Madrid, is 65
years old

9. Non-Defining relative clauses
* No podemos utilizar that
* John, who speaks French and Italian,
works as a toursit guide.
*No podemos omitir who o which
We stayed at the Grand Hotel, which
Ann recommended to us.