Mastering Relative Clauses in English Grammar

🧠 Mastering Relative Clauses in English Grammar. A Complete Guide + Practice Quiz for ESL Students

🧠 Mastering Relative Clauses in English Grammar

🧠 Mastering Relative Clauses in English Grammar

Understanding relative clauses is essential for clear and fluent communication in English. Whether you’re a student or a teacher looking for a structured way to explain and practice them, this resource is for you. Below, you’ll find a detailed explanation, examples, and a quiz to test your skills—all based on a ready-to-use PDF format perfect for classroom or self-study use.

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Relative Clauses

Relative clauses are clauses starting with the relative pronouns who*, that, which, whose, where, when. They are most often used to define or identify the noun that precedes them. Here are some examples:

• Do you know the girl who started in grade 7 last week?
• Can I have the pencil that I gave you this morning?
• A notebook is a computer which can be carried around.
• I won’t eat in a restaurant whose cooks smoke.
• I want to live in a place where there is lots to do.
• Yesterday was a day when everything went wrong!

* There is a relative pronoun whom, which can be used as the object of the relative clause. For example:
My science teacher is a person whom I like very much.
To many people the word whom now sounds old-fashioned, and it is rarely used in spoken English.

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Relative Pronouns Overview

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