Relative clauses and pronouns 5H1 -2

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• Alquin text I

Test Alquin & GRO 

Friday 9 December 2022

Alquin: keywords texts 1, 2

GRO: Chapter 6, relative clauses 

Relative Clauses

Betrekkelijke bijzin: provides extra information about something that has already been mentioned, for instance a person, thing, animal, place, or event. 

NL: die (bij 'de-woorden'), dat (bij 'het-woorden), wat, waar. 

ENG: who, which, that, what, where, when

Relative Clauses

Kan bijv. verwijzen naar:

• een zelfstandig naamwoord (a noun)
• een voornaamwoord (a pronoun)
• een hele zin (a main or subclause)

Check!

Exercises 1 - 4 

p. 64

Non-Restrictive relative clauses (commas):

• antecedent = person: who 
• antecedent = thing: which 
• antecedent = place: where
• antecedent = time: when 
• antecedent = reason: why
• no antecedent = what ('that which')

Restrictive relative clauses (no commas):

• antecedent = person: who or that, preference for who
• antecedent = thing: which or that, preference for that 
• antecedent = place: where
• antecedent = time: when 
• antecedent = reason: why
• no antecedent = what ('that which')

Prepositions 

Jonah, to whom I was talking earlier, just walked into the room. 

Johah, who I was talking to earlier, just walked into the room.

Prepositions 

The woman that I used to work with just walked into the room. 

The woman with whom I used to work just walked into the room.

The woman I used to work with just walked into the room. 

Do

Exercises 5, 6, 7 and 8

study the theory 

pp. 74 - 85

Relative clauses

You can leave out relative pronouns if:

• it is a 'restrictive' relative clause'
• the pronoun does NOT relate to the subject
  
• there is a pronoun behind it

The flowers which he gave me were beautiful.

Persoonlijk: ik, jij, hij, etc.

Bezittelijk: mijn, zijn, onze, etc.

Wederkerend: me, je, zich, etc.

The flowers he gave me were beautiful.