1. Relative pronouns are used to refer to nouns or pronouns whose antecedents are people or things.
Sentence components are used in restrictive clauses or non-restrictive clauses, only in restrictive clauses.
A substitute for people or things.
Subject, who, which and that.
Who is the subject?
whose
This is a detective from London.
The book I am reading is written by Thomas Hardy.
Ex. 3: The table with a broken leg is very old.
Example 4: This is the room where Shakespeare was born.
2. Usage of relative pronouns
(1) If the antecedent is indefinite pronouns, such as all, much, any, something, little, none, etc. Relative pronouns generally only use that instead of which. For example:
All the people present were in tears.
(2) If prepositions are modified by superlative adjectives and words such as first, last, any, only, worry, mush, no, some, very, etc. The relative pronoun is often that, not which, who, who. For example:
(3) In the non-restrictive attributive clause, the relative pronoun that cannot be used and the relative pronoun that is the object cannot be omitted.
Attributive clause in senior high school English Example 2 Attributive' is a word, phrase (infinitive phrase, gerund phrase and participle phrase) or sentence used to limit and modify a noun or pronoun, which is commonly used in Chinese. Mainly use adjectives. In addition, nouns, pronouns, numerals, participles, adverbs, infinitives and prepositional phrases can also be used in a sentence. When a word is used as an attribute, it is usually placed before the word it modifies as a prepositional attribute. When phrases and clauses are used as attributes, they are placed after the modified words as post attributes.
An attributive clause refers to a sentence used as an attribute in a sentence, and the attributive clause should be placed after the modified word.
The man who lives next door to us is a policeman.
You must do everything I do.
Man and everything in the above two sentences are both words modified by attributive clauses, which are called antecedents, and the attributive clauses are placed after the antecedents.
The words that guide attributive clauses are relative pronouns that, which, who (objective who) and relative adverbs where, when and why.
Relational words usually have three functions:
1, leading attributive clause
2, instead of antecedents
3. Act as a component in the attributive clause