Subject Relative Clauses

Question 1

What does a relative claus do with a noun?

Answer 1

-modify, define, describe, identify, or give more information

Question 2

Which relative clauses do you use for people?

Answer 2

-who or that

Question 3

Which relative clauses do you use for things?

Answer 3

-which, that

Question 4

Which tense does the verb of the relative clause have?

Answer 4

• it has to agree with the noun that the relative pronoun modifies
• > Someone that supports the environment recycles

Question 5

Give an example where you can use relative clauses? Name the words that are used there

Answer 5

• definitions

- >anyone, people, someone, something

Question 6

What is the difference between identifying and nonidentifying relative clauses?

Answer 6

• identifying relative clause gives essential information about the noun (+it identifies or distinguishes the noun)
• nonidentifying provide additional, not essential, information about the nouns

Question 7

What can you not use for nonidentifying clauses?

Answer 7

-that

Question 8

What do you have to use before and after nonidentifying clauses? And what do they indicate?

Answer 8

• commas

- >indicate that the information is not essential to the meaning of the noun (-it is extra information)

Question 9

Where are nonidentifying clauses more common?

Answer 9

-in writing and formal speaking than in informal speaking

Question 10

What does the pronoun whose show?

Answer 10

-possession (Besitz, Eigentum)

Question 11

Whith what does the verb in the relative clause agree?

Answer 11

-with the noun following whose