{"id":157,"date":"2021-03-23T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/?p=157"},"modified":"2021-03-23T07:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T07:07:00","slug":"relative-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/grammar\/relative-clause.htm","title":{"rendered":"Relative clause: who, that, which, when, where, why and whom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello dear visitors<\/p>\n<p>In this course, we will talk about relative clause. we begin with some examples to introduce you to this grammar lesson:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The man\u00a0<strong>who<\/strong>\u00a0is with the teacher is my father<\/li>\n<li>Here is the hotel\u00a0<strong>that<\/strong>\u00a0my friend visited yesterday<\/li>\n<li>The city\u00a0<strong>where<\/strong>\u00a0I live is beautiful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may notice in these examples that we have two parts in the sentences, connected by a noun. The secont part is called relative clause and the noun between is the relative (it may be a pronoun, an adverb..).<\/p>\n<p>The relative noun is used to give extra informations about the subject or the whole sentence we are talking about. There are differents types of these nouns. We will talk about relative pronouns and relative adverbs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relative pronouns:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The relative pronouns are: who, which and that. Who is used for people (humans), which for objects and that for both of them. They are used to tell some informations about the subject, or precise it. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The man who is with the teacher is my father.<br \/>\n\u2013 The apple that I ate was delicious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relative adverbs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The relative adverbs are: where, when and why.<\/p>\n<p>Where is used to refer to a place, when is used to refer to a time and why refers to a reason. You\u2019ll find below some examples to understand more these special adverbs:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The restaurant where I have dinner is so calm<br \/>\n\u2013 Fortunately there are times when you are in a good mood.<br \/>\n\u2013 I was angry at you, that\u2019s why I didn\u2019t call you back<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other relative nouns: whom &amp; whose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whom is like the relative pronoun who, but whom is used when we talk about the object of the relative clause. Example:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The man whom you talk to me about, is my father.<\/p>\n<p>Whose is a possesive pronoun, used as the subject of the relative clause. Example:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The man whose car is red, is my father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello dear visitors In this course, we will talk about relative clause. we begin with some examples to introduce you to this grammar lesson: The man\u00a0who\u00a0is with the teacher is my father Here is the hotel\u00a0that\u00a0my friend visited yesterday The city\u00a0where\u00a0I live is beautiful You may notice in these examples that we have two parts &#8230; <a title=\"Relative clause: who, that, which, when, where, why and whom\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/grammar\/relative-clause.htm\" aria-label=\"Read more about Relative clause: who, that, which, when, where, why and whom\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}