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Re­la­ti­ve clau­ses

How to de­scri­be per­sons and things - re­la­ti­ve clau­ses

If you want to de­scri­be per­sons or things you can use sen­ten­ces that begin with

who, which, that

Un­der­li­ne who, which, that in each sen­tence and un­der­li­ne the word that it de­scri­bes:

An aut­hor is a per­son who often wri­tes books..

A re­a­der is per­son who reads books.

A dic­tio­na­ry is a book which ex­plains words.

A book­shop is a shop that sells books.

The main cha­rac­ter is the per­son that is most im­portant in a story.

A li­bra­ry is an in­sti­tu­ti­on that lends books.

 

Over to you:

→ You can use _______ and _______ to de­scri­be per­sons.

→ You can use ________and _______ to de­scri­be things.

 

Spe­cial 1 - whose:

Trans­la­te these sen­ten­ces and un­der­li­ne the Ger­man word for whose:

→ In a crime story a de­tec­tive is a per­son whose job is sol­ving cri­mes.

→ A thril­ler is a story whose main story is a crime

Spe­cial 2 – con­tact clau­se:

J.K. Row­ling is an aut­hor who many peop­le know be­cau­se of her Harry Pot­ter books.

An e-book is a book which you read on an e-book re­a­der.

→ You can leave out the re­la­ti­ve pro­noun(who, which, that) if there is ano­ther sub­ject (here: many peop­le, you) after the word that is ex­plai­ned (here: aut­hor, book)

→ We use this to make sen­ten­ces shor­ter

 

Re­la­ti­ve clau­ses: Her­un­ter­la­den [docx][19 KB]

 

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