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Therelative sentences They are those subordinate structures that are inserted in the sentence introduced by a relative pronoun. For example: The trip you promised me never happened.
They are also called adjectival subordinate clauses because they fulfill the function of adjective, since they modify the noun that is as antecedent. They are not actually sentences, but propositions subordinate to a main sentence, within a compound sentence.
There are two kinds of relative clauses:
- Specific. They restrict or narrow the scope of the antecedent and are not enclosed in commas. For example: I didn't like the movie that was released yesterday.
- Explanatory. They do not restrict the scope but make a clarification or explain something and are written between commas. For example: My sister, who I work with, is very professional.
The pronouns that introduce the relative sentences are the following: what, where, when, how much, how, who, which Y whose. These last three with their corresponding variations in number or gender and number. Several of these pronouns can head the relative clause associated with a preposition, such as in, to, to or from with. For example: The man I fell in love with lives in Uruguay.
Relative sentences are widely used in everyday life, since it is common that we need to make clarifications or specifications about what we are saying and by using these structures we avoid having to repeat several words.
See also:
- Simple and compound sentences
- Subordinate clauses
Examples of relative sentences
- The movie which I told you about they premiere it this weekend.
- Matías, who i met on my last trip, he enrolled in the same course as Daniel.
- The place where García Márquez was born it is today a museum.
- I always offer my grandchildren all the time that I can.
- They just sanded the fence you are leaning on now.
- That model car that has been missing for months, is identical to the European.
- The neighbor whose children work in the legislature moved to the tenth floor.
- Co-workers the ones I trust the most I have been flatly denied it.
- The boy which I told you about last night resigned today.
- Those of the winning team, they had been waiting for that moment for years, they could not believe it.
- The companion who were promoted previously worked in another firm.
- The bar of Tucumán and Defensa, where I told him to wait for me, it was just closed.
- The bank clerk who took care of meor was not aware.
- The girl who did I attend the party with?suffered a fracture.
- That note, whose author is the editor in charge of the newspaper, caused an unprecedented scandal.
- I need a person do things around the house.
- The room where your nephew sleeps needs fixes.
- Do it as you see fit.
- Alejandro Repetti, with whom I traveled to the Philippines, was appointed director of the museum.
- The boots what did I buy they are a bit hot.
- More examples in: Adjective subordinate clauses
