Nondefining relative clauses are placed after nouns which are definite already. Exercises with answers and grammar rules with examples. Defining and non defining relative clauses 2 pages worksheet with grammar guide 21,374 downloads. Paul, who started singing at 15, is now very famous. Fernandez carmona, english grammar with exercises, longman, 2000. Defining and nondefining relative clauses who, whom, whose, which, that. Nondefining relative pronouns exercise three things about nondefining relative clauses. There are defining and non defining relative sentences. Nondefining relative clauses english esl worksheets for distance. Thank you for your letter, which i was very happy to get.
Mr brown, whom we studied english with, is a very nice. A collection of english esl relative clauses worksheets for home learning, online practice, distance learning and english classes to teach about. We could miss out the relative and the meaning would still be clear. Nondefining relative clauses give additional information about people, things or places. The relative clause is closed off by commas and is quite similar to information in brackets.
Answer key 1 fill in the gaps with a suitable relative pronoun. Free definingnon defining relative clauses worksheets you have reached the section devoted to defining and nondefining relative clauses which are some intimidating phrases so you might want to leave them out of your introduction and focus on the important stuff such as how to form and use them. That cannot be used and even though there is a pronoun in the relative clause which cannot be left out because in nondefining relative clauses the pronoun can never be left out. London, which is the capital of england, is one of the largest cities in the world. Nondefining relative clauses are not used in spoken english.