What you need to know
To achieve 100+ you need to recognise and use relative clauses.
- A relative clause adds extra information about a noun or noun phrase. The sentence makes sense without it.
- A relative clause adds extra information about the noun, and it contains a verb (because it is a clause).
- It often begins with a relative pronoun: who, which, when, where or that. The relative pronoun may be omitted in some cases: Paul, [who is] a great cook, made my birthday cake.
- A relative clause is a type of subordinate clause.