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a) Look at this examples from Relative clauses (1):
·
The woman who
lives next door is very friendly. (Or that lives)
In these
sentences who and that are subjects of the verbs in the relative clauses: the
woman lives next door, the eggs were in the fridge. So you cannot leave out who or that in these sentences.
Note:
sometimes who and that are subject of the verbs:
Examples:
·
The woman -I want
to see her –was away
on holiday.
==>the
woman who (or that)
I want to see was away on holiday.
·
Have you
found the keys? –you lost them.
==>have
you found the keys that
you lost?
Note: when who or that are subjects of the verb in the relative
clause, you can leave them out.
Study the
following Examples:
·
The woman I wanted
to see was away on holiday.( but not: the woman I want to
see her was away on holiday) pay attention and be careful.
·
Have you
found the keys you lost?( but don’t say: have you found the keys you
lost them?
·
The t-shirt
Hicham bought doesn’t fit him very well. (=the t-shirt that Hicham bought)
·
The girl
Hicham is going to marry is Algerian.(=the girl who/that Hicham is going to marry)
·Is there
anything I can do? ( is there anything that
I can do)
b) Normally there
are often prepositions (in/at/with etc.) in relative clauses. Study the
position of the prepositions in each example:
- Do you know the boy? –Elma is talking to him.
==>do you
know the boy (who/that) Elma is talking to?
- The chair –I stayed in is last night –was not very comfortable.
==>the chair
(that) I stayed in
last night was not very comfortable.
Other examples:
- The girl (who/that) I sat next to the plane talked all the time.
- The man (who/that) she fell in love with left her after a few weeks.
- Are those books (that) you have been looking for?
- Everything (that) they said was true. (But not: everything what they said).
- He gave her all the money (that) he had.(but not: all…what he had).
d) What=the thing(s) that:
- Did you hear what he said? (The words that he said).
- I won’t tell anyone what happened. (the thing that happened).