Relative pronouns and relative clauses · Year 6
A relative clause adds information about a noun. It starts with a relative pronoun: who for people, which for things and animals, that for either, whose for belonging, and where for places. The girl who won the race is my cousin. The clause who won the race tells us which girl.
Key facts
- who for people: I have a friend who speaks French. which for things: This is the bus which goes to the station.
- that can replace who or which when there are no commas: the bus that goes to the station.
- whose shows belonging: the boy whose bike was stolen. where is for places: the house where I was born.
- A clause between commas adds extra information; the sentence still makes sense without it: My grandmother, who is eighty, still swims. Never use that there.
- Join two sentences: I read a book. It was about dragons. → I read a book which was about dragons. The pronoun takes the place of it, so don't repeat it.