Relative Clauses

Defining = Especificativas ( sin comas)

PEOPLE THAT(informal) // WHO (formal)* = que, el/ la cual, los/las cuales THAT(informal) // WHICH (formal) = que, el/ la cual, los/las cuales WHOSE (cuyo/a, cuyos/as)

Theres a man outside that / who wants to see you I want a watch that /which is waterproof The woman whose husband is the president is Mrs Brown.

THINGS PEOPLE and THINGS

Cundo puede omitirse el relativo? Cuando va seguido por un sujeto. - This is the man (that/who) I met in the party. Qu ocurre con las preposiciones y los relativos? Podemos tener dos casos: 1. Que la preposicin vaya detrs del verbo y por tanto alejada del relativo: People: I know the girl who / that he spoke to Things: This is the house which/that I wrote to you about 2. Que la preposicin vaya justo delante del relativo: People: I know the girl to whom he spoke to Things: This is the house about which I wrote to you

Non-defining = explicativas (con comas)

PEOPLE THINGS PEOPLE AND THINGS FACTS WHO* WHICH WHOSE WHICH

Here is John Smith, who I mentioned the other day. This house, which belongs to the King, has been sold My teacher, whose husband is the head of the school, is very strict. He likes Michael Jackson, which surprises me

Qu ocurre con las preposiciones y los relativos? Podemos tener dos casos: 1. Que la preposicin vaya detrs del verbo y por tanto alejada del relativo: People: My uncle, who you were with this morning, gave me $400 Things: That house, which I wrote to you about, belongs to my grandma 2. Que la preposicin vaya justo delante del relativo: People: My uncle, with whom you were this morning, gave me $400 Things: That house, about which I wrote to you, belongs to my grandma

* Tambin podemos utilizar WHOM cuando nos referimos a un objeto tanto en

las especificativas como en las explicativas, pero esta opcin es ms formal. The boy whom I met is American // I met a boy V object
Truco: si utilizamos slo who y which tanto para las especificativas como para las explicativas, lo tendremos siempre bien, a no ser que el relativo vaya detrs de preposicin, en cuyo caso habr que utilizar whom y which.