13/04/21 subject:- English chapter 1 A letter to God
English Classwork A letter to God Page no. 9 III. Relative Clauses Look at these sentences (a) All morning Lencho ---- who knew his fields intimately ----looked at the sky. (b) The woman, who was preparing supper, replied, "Yes, God willing." The italicised parts of the sentences give us more information about Lencho and the woman. We call them relative clauses. Notice that they begin with a relative pronoun who. Other common relative pronouns are whom, whose, and which. The relative clauses in (a) and (b) above are called non-defining, because we already know the identity of the person they describe. Lencho is a particular person, and there is a particular woman he speaks to. We don't need the information in the relative clause to pick these people out from a larger set. A non-defining relative clause usually has a comma in front of it and a comma after it (some writers use a dash (--) instead, as in the story). If the relative clause...