How to use RELATIVE CLAUSES in English

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We use RELATIVE CLAUSES to add extra information to a sentence by joining sentences together. However, some RELATIVE CLAUSES are defining and some RELATIVE CLAUSES are non-defining, so let&find out more in this video lesson. 0:00 What are RELATIVE CLAUSES? 0:52 Relative pronouns 1:08 Defining RELATIVE CLAUSES 2:43 Non-defining RELATIVE CLAUSES 3:37 Using 'whose' 3:55 Using 'that' 4:24 Dropping the relative pronoun 5:23 Using 'whom' TRANSCRIPT In this video lesson we&going to look at relative clauses. We&going to look at defining and non-defining relative clauses. We&look at an example using both defining and non-defining to see what the difference is and we&look at the form together so we know how to use them. So what is a relative clause? Basically a relative clause is extra information added to a sentence. In some examples the information is extra information but is not necessary to the sentence and in other examples the information is important to the sentence, we need that information. So we connect a relative clause to a sentence using a relative pronoun and the relative pronouns we have in English are who or whom, which, whose or that. So to help us understand we&going to look at the same sentence but the first example will be a defining relative clause and the second example will be the same sentence but as a non-defining relative clause to see how the sentence changes. So here&the first example: "The man who is from Spain offered me a job". So in this example...

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