what is a relative clauses?

 Relative clauses

            Relative clauses are one kind of dependent clause, introduced by a relative pronoun that refers to the main noun the clause depends upon. A relative clause always immediately follows the noun it modifies. Like all clauses, relative clauses have a subject and a verb. The relative pronoun may be the subject of the clause, but it isn’t always.

The relative pronouns are:

who	for people	can substitute for subject nouns/pronouns (he, she,we,they)
whom	for people	can substitute for object nouns/pronouns (him, us, them)
whose	for people	can substitute for pronouns (his, hers, our, their)
that	for people or things	can be either subject or object can only be used in restrictive relative clauses (see below)
which	for things	can be either subject or object can be used in non-restrictive relative clauses

Example:

I ate the ice cream that was in the freezer.

My uncle, who [he] was born in Hong Kong, lived most of his life overseas.

 Jonathan has a little sister whom he plays with all the time.

I like the paintings which hang in the south lobby.

Choosing a relative clauses

The three most common relative pronouns are who, which, and that.
 the choice of pronoun depends upon the noun the clause refers to and on what type of relative clause is used.

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