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Language AS
Defining relative clause
Essential info, usually after the noun it describes, are never separated by commas
eg. I live in a house which was built in 1895.
Language AS
Non-defining relative
clause
extra info, always comma
Graham Greene, who lived from 1904 to 1991, was a famous English writer.
Language AS
Contact clause
Relative clauses where the Pronoun can be left out.
The man we met this morning is my uncle.
Language AS
Nominal relative clause
Relative pronoun acts like a noun + relative pronoun together.
eg. Here are five books. You can choose whichever you like.
-> ... choose whichever (book) you like
Language AS
Cleft sentence
giving emphasis
eg. It was Rob who ate my biscuits. It was my biscuits that Rob ate.
Language AS
Relative adverb
the place where I was born / the day when he arrived / the reason why we left
Language AS
Sentence-related
relative clause
Last year we went to Portugal, which we had been planning to do for a long time
Language AS
Relative determiner
The Labour Party, whose members showed their support for his project, then went on to win the
election.
Language AS
To-infinitive
My patients have always tended to do much better than expected
Language AS
Bare infinitive
I saw him tear open a bag of crisps
Language AS
Passive infinitive
A few cacti were the only things to be seen in the desert of Arizona.
Language AS
Progressive infinitive
This time tomorrow, I will be lying on the beach.
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