LING 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Adverbial Clause, Relative Clause, Relative Pronoun
19 Mar 2018
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Which, what, whom, whose, when, that, why and others that relate something to something else. Relative clause describes a noun or a noun phrase. They are adjectives clauses because they describe or modify a preceding np. My brother who lives in alberta is an engineer. My brother, who lives in alberta, in an engineer. Essential includes information that gives the sentence meaning. The information in the relative clause is essential. Nonessential includes additional information not necessary for the sentence to have meaning. When you have a comma and then a relative clause , it modifies entire clause if there is no comma before it then it modifies the previous noun. Relative clause with comma can only use which. Non essential clause with comma must use which. Essential clause use that prescriptively or can use that or which descriptively. Whose is a relative pronoun used with relative clauses. With inanimate objects, used noun phrase + of which.
