I've googled for examples of relative clauses, but they tend to make it more complicated for me to know what makes it a relative clause and how to identify one to be a relative clause. I'm not that sure what is a relative clause.
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Inkkedbree,
(1) Key Member Mara Ce has given you and me an excellent link.
(2) I think that another term for "relative clause" is "adjective clause."
(3) An adjective, as you know, modifies (describes) a noun, as in
A beautiful girl. (The adjective "beautiful" modifies the noun "girl.")
You can also say: The girl
who is beautiful is Mona.
Then we call "Who is beautiful" a relative/adjective clause because it
modifies the noun "girl." It describes the girl.
(4) Here are some more examples from my favorite grammar book:
(a) Any man
who would steal would lie.
It does not say that any man would lie. It describes what kind of man
would lie. (The kind of man who would steal.)
(b) Have you read the book
that I gave you? "That I gave you"
describes which book. The word "that" is called a relative pronoun.
Why? Because it "relates" to the word "book" and it is a substitute for the
word "book." It is "bad" English to say: Have you read the book
book I
gave you." So we have to change the second "book" to "that." When
people speak, sometimes they delete (drop) the relative pronoun:
Have you read the book
I gave you?
(c) I remember the house where I was born.
(i) what words describe the noun "house."
(ii) Answer:
where I was born. So we call those three words a
relative/adjective clause.
(d) Paris, which is located in France, is one of the most beautiful
cities in the world.
(i) Can you identify the relative/adjective clause?
(ii) Which words refer to "Paris"? Answer:
which is located in France.
We call "which" a relative pronoun.
(5) If you study Mara Ce's link very carefully, you will soon come to
understand relative clauses. Whenever you have a question, just
post a question here.
My favorite book: Homer C. House & Susan E. Harman,
Descriptive
English Grammar (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1950).