RESTRICTIVE AND NONRESTRICTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES
Relative clauses (restrictive and nonrestrictive) modify nouns (or noun phrases). They have subject and verb and cannot stand alone as complete sentences.
Relative clauses can be thought of as combination of two sentences.
Mia Hamm is an athlete. I admire her . = Mia Hamm is an athlete who I admire.
Restrictive clauses distinguish one noun from another. Nonrestrictive relative clauses add extra information about a noun and are separated by commas.
OBJECT RELATIVE PRONOUNS
When who,whom, which, or that is the object of a relative clause, it is an object relative pronoun.
In restrictive clauses who, whom, and that are used for people. Which and that are used for things and animals. In nonrestrictive clauses, who or whom is used for people and which is used for things.
Object relative pronouns are followed by a subject + verb (phrase). The verb agrees with he subject before it. It does not agree with the noun that the clause refers to.
Mia Hamm is an athlete who I admire a lot.
Object relative pronoun can be omitted from restrictive relative clauses.
A swimmer who I know won a medal. = A swimmer ---- I know won a medal.
Object relative pronouns are never omitted from nonrestrictive relative clauses.
Do not repeat the object noun or pronoun in the relative clause.
PRACTICE
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