Relatives

Oraciones de relativo Las oraciones de relativo dan

información sobre uno de los sustantivos que aparecen en la oración principal:

The woman who lives in apartment No.34 has been arrested.

Pronombres relativosPara personas:

Who: The girl who is sitting next to you. Whom: A man whom I don't know. Cuando se refiere al Objeto de la oraciónWhose: The film is about a man whose wife disappearsPosesión

Pronombres relativosPara cosas:Which: A company which is going to merge

Para ambos:That: The novels that he writes do not sell. I saw the woman that stole your bag

Adverbios relativosAdverbio = pronombre + preposicionWhen in/on which the day when we met him

Where in/at which the place where we met him

Why for which the reason why we met him

Tipos de oraciones relativas1. Defining (especificativas): identifican

a la persona o cosa de la que estamos hablando, indican a quién o qué nos referimos:

She spoke to the man who painted the house

Se usan en definiciones:A seaman is a man who works in a ship

Defining relative clauses* Podemos sustituir who y which por that:Do you know anyone who/that speaks English?* Cuando el pronombre relativo (who, which, that) NO es el sujeto de la oración, se puede omitirIs that the book (that) I lent you?

Tipos de oraciones relativas1. Non-Defining (explicativas) :

dan información adicional sobre una persona o cosa. La oración de relativo va separada por comas:

My mother, who lives in Madrid, is 65 years old

Non-Defining relative clauses* No podemos utilizar that* John, who speaks French and

Italian, works as a toursit guide.

* No podemos omitir who o whichWe stayed at the Grand Hotel, which

Ann recommended to us.