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Hello everyone, today I'm sharing my computer screen with you to talk about relative clauses.

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Now, there are two different types of relative clauses in English.

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Defining relative clauses and non-defining relative clauses.

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Defining relative clauses are used to give sensual information about a person or a thing or a place or a time that has been previously mentioned.

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Now, the relative pronouns we use are who or that to talk about people, which or that

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to talk about things, whose to talk about possession, where to talk about places, and

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when to talk about time.

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Who or that to talk about people.

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We have two different types of examples here.

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We'll see why.

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James was the man who or that arrived late to the meeting.

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as you can see we do not use commas here to talk about to introduce a relative

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clause now we can use who or that James was the man who that I invited to the

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party now these two relative clauses can be this in this example the relative

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pronoun can be omitted as they are not the the subject of invited to the party

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the subject is I. So whenever we have a subject afterwards, after the relative pronoun, we

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can omit the relative pronoun. As you can see here, there is no subject between the

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relative pronoun and the verb because this relative pronoun is the subject of arrives

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late to the meeting. Which is used to talk about things. That is a sport which or that

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my brother plays. My brother is the subject of plays, so we can omit it. And that is for

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which or that is played indoors. In here, there is no subject between the relative pronoun

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and the verb, so we cannot omit it. Again, we can use which or that.

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Whose, where and when can never be omitted. That is the player whose team is top of the

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league. Now, this whose can be translated as cuyo. Where is to talk about places. Land

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Sunday is the place where I live, and when is used to talk about time.

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Sunday is the day when I play tennis.

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In non-defining relative clauses, who and which can never be omitted,

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and that cannot be used instead.

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Now, non-relative clauses are used to give extra or non-essential information

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about a person, a thing, or a place, or a time

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that has been previously mentioned.

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They are always between commas.

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In this example here,

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James, who was born in London,

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lived in Manchester for a long time.

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It's missing.

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Which is used to talk about things.

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Tennis, which is my favourite sport,

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is a very old game.

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Who's to talk about possession?

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John, whose team is top of the league, is a very good player.

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And where it is used to talk about places.

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London, where the Olympics were held in 2012, is a great city.

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When to talk about time.

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Yesterday, when I played tennis, was a warm day.

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Now, if we do not give this extra information, nothing happens to the sentence.

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Yesterday was a warm day.

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London is a great city.

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John is a very good player.

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Tennis is a very old game.

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James lived in Manchester for a long time.

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So, this relative clause gives extra information.

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That's why it's between commas.

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Remember, we can never omit the relative pronoun.

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Now, if you have any doubts, please go to OneNote, Unit 7.

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and there you can find all the information about relative clauses if

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you still have some doubts please ask thank you