Sentence Problems: Relative Clauses and Relative Pronouns

Sentence Problems: Relative Clauses and Relative Pronouns

Relative clauses are also called adjective clauses because they modify nouns and noun phrases as adjectives do. Relative clauses follow the nouns to which they refer and are introduced by relative pronouns such as who, whom, which, and that. A dependent relative clause refers to a word or words (its antecedent) in the independent clause.

Example

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play. — Yiddish Proverb
[relative clause = who can't dance]

Appropriate Use
Agreement of Verb
Agreement after one of, the only one of
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses
Clauses with Quantity Words
Clauses with Prepositions
That as Relative Pronoun
Position of Relative Clause
Unnecessary Pronoun
Where and When