2019-06-24 Writing: relative clauses

Greg Malivuk
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Relative (Adjective) Clauses
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What is the difference between these sentences?

I like all of my students who do their homework. = Some of my students do their homework, and I like those students.
I like all of my students, who do their homework. = I like all of my students, and all of my students do their homework.

- Without the comma, the adjective clause adds necessary information that changes the meaning of the sentence
- With the comma, the adjective clause adds extra information that could be removed without changing the meaning of the rest of the sentence.
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who = people
which = things
that = people or things (but NOT after a comma)
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Practice 5 - Underline the adjective clauses, circle the relative pronouns (“who”, “which”, or “that”), and draw an arrow to the noun they modify.
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Practice 6 - Complete the sentences with “which” or “who”, then identify which of those pronouns could also be “that”.
1 which
2 who
3 who
4 which
5 who/that
6 which
7 who/that
8 who/that
Sometimes you need to use the context to figure out which noun is being modified:
I don’t like talking to people at meetings that are unprepared. (“that” = “people”)
I don’t like talking to people at meetings that are more than two hours long. (“that” = “meetings”)

You shouldn’t drink out of bottles of water that have been opened. (“that” = “bottles”)
	(You can’t move “of water” to the end, because that’s the type of bottle we’re talking about.)
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Without a comma, the adjective clause can be called “identifying”, “restrictive”, or “defining”.
	(Because it identifies, restricts, or defines which noun it’s talking about.)
With a comma, it’s “non-identifying”, “non-restrictive”, or “non-defining”.
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Homework (to start in class): p. 181 practice 7 (all)