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Thank you We sneak in relative pronouns Allah shmoop robin

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is having a difficult time with the love letter she's

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writing to her crush should she say you are the

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man whom i've adored since freshman year or you are

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the man that i've adored since freshman year Yikes Teenage

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love is hard enough Does robin really have to deal

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with grammar confusion to well the part of grammar that's

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throwing a wrench into robin's dreams of boyfriend bliss is

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called the relative pronoun no relative opponents aren't named after

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those family members of yours who liked to sit on

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the front porch at sundown strumming banjos and drinking moonshine

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instead Relative pronouns are so named because they introduced relative

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clauses so let's break it down A relative clause is

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a kind of dependent clause meaning it modifies something a

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word a phrase whatever In the main clause of a

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sentence whatever item the relative clause is modifying is called

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an antis edith about that five dollar word is it

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Amaze your friends and press them all Not really art

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There are two types of relative clauses restrictive relative clauses

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and non restrictive relative clauses Let's start with a restrictive

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relative clause This kind of klaus has two characteristics Relative

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pronoun introducing it is not separated from the main clause

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by a comma And the restrictive klaus supplies some bit

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of crucial information without which the sentence wouldn't make sense

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before we move on to some examples of restrictive relative

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clause let's go over the relative pronouns we're likely to

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encounter They include who home whoever whomever who's that and

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which you see here towards what When and where can

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also sometimes serve as relative pronounced Okay time for some

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examples of restrictive relative clauses So say we have the

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sense This is the guy Okay What guy are we

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talking about Why are we talking about him Well this

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is where the restrictive relative clause comes in This is

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the guy who has captured robin's heart here the relative

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pronoun who is the subject of the restrictive relative clause

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And how do we know this is a restrictive relative

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clause While there's no comma between guy and who and

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the relative clause provides an essential piece of information namely

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that robin is crushing on this dude right here A

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relative pronoun can also appear is the object of a

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restrictive relative thrown out However we tend to strike this

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type of relative pronoun from sentences as unnecessary For example

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while we could write robin's crushes wearing the cologne that

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she loves we don't need to include the glad unless

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we're being formal so our sense can read robin's crushes

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wearing the cologne she loves Say we have this ends

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the heinous which to whom robin's crushes speaking is actually

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his girlfriend We can ditch that whom like robin wishes

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her beloved would ditch his girlfriend so that our sense

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reads the heinous which robbins crush is speaking to is

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actually his girlfriend Finally the relative pronoun who's can be

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used to indicate possession in a restrictive relative clause as

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in the girl whose boyfriend robin wants the steel found

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a burning bag of dog poop on her doorstep yesterday

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Robin you haven't even given your crush that letter yet

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There's no need to declare all out war on his

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lady friend onto relative pronounce in non restrictive relative clauses

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Here the relative pronoun is separated from the antis eaten

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by a comma most of the time and the information

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contained within the relative clause is unimportant Un essential inconsequential

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One more thing non restrictive relative closet generally start with

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a relative pronoun which a relative pronoun conserve is the

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subject of a non restrictive relative clause as in this

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examples robin's love letter which was twenty pages long wouldn't

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fit into her crushes locker A relative pronoun can also

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serve as the object of a non restrictive relative clause

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as in this example letter which robin had worked so

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hard to write got majorly wrinkled from her attempts to

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stuff it into the locker got it How do we

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know that these two examples include non restrictive relative clause

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is well in both cases akama appears between the relative

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pronoun witch and the rest of the sentence Any information

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in a non restrictive relative clauses doesn't really matter We

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have just one more thing to say about relative pronoun

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when referring to people in restrictive clauses we can use

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the relative pronouns that or hoo so long as we're

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speaking informally For example while we could say robin is

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the kind of person who obsesses over guys we could

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also say robin is the kind of person that obsesses

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over guys Both ways are correct however if we're speaking

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Formally about a particular person we need to use the

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relative pronoun who for example the girl who is dating

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robin's Crush has wised up to robin's activities And now

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that we've cleared up robin's confusion regarding relative pronouns we

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wish her good luck is She attempts to inform her

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crush of her undying devotion She's going to need it

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