Mastering Relative Clauses and Essential English Vocabulary
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Understanding Relative Clauses
Relative clauses are subordinate clauses, meaning they depend on a main clause. A relative clause is equivalent to an adjective; this means it has the same basic function as this type of word: to accompany, modify, define, or qualify a noun. Therefore, within a main clause, the relative clause always refers to a noun that it modifies. The noun modified by a relative clause is called the antecedent.
Relative clauses are joined to the main clause by a series of words which are relative pronouns and relative adverbs. The main ones are: who, which, that, whom, when, and where.
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