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Exercises: part 1Indicate the following:
a) the relative pronouns
b) the antecedent (= person or object)
c) commas
d) essential or additional information
1. Melania Trump, whose mother is Austrian, speaks German.
= additional information, because you don’t need the information between the comma’s.
2. El Chapo, who is a drug dealer, has escaped prison many times.
3. It was there that Brian met Lucy, who is now his wife.
= additional
4. Theresa May spoke to Angela Merkel, from whom she got the bad news.
= additional
5. Ron told Harry only half the truth, which was very clever of him.
= additional
6. The theme that we talked about yesterday.
7. This is the best film I have ever seen.
8. What I like is going crazy on Justin Bieber’s music.
9. He is the same guy that picked my pocket yesterday.
10. There are a lot of doctors, many of whom married a nurse.
, Tip:
Wanneer er een komma staat = additional.
Relative pronouns
1. Types of relative clauses
Identifying Non-identifying
The girl who is standing in the Mary, who is standing in the front,
front is Sophie's sister. is Sophie's sister.
Essential information Additional information
Identifies the antecedent Describes the antecedent
No commas Commas
Pronouns: wh-forms, that, Ø (= Pronouns: wh-forms
you can leave out the pronous)
2. Antecedent and function
a) personal vs non-personal antecedent
1. Personal antecedent
Non-personal
(= verwijst naar een
antecedent (= object)
persoon en dieren)
Subject: who Subject: which
Direct object: whom Direct object: which
Possessive: whose Possessive: of which/ whose
Preposition + whom Preposition + which
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