RELATIVE PRONOUNS | THAT, WHICH, WHO(M), WHOSE, WHERE, WHEN or nothing? | Explained with donuts

Do you get confused about when to use THAT or WHICH or no relative pronoun. What about WHO or WHOM. In which situations can we use WHOSE or WHERE or WHEN? What's the difference between a restrictive relative clause and a non-restrictive relative clause? What about pronunciation. Are they pronounced differently. Yes, indeed in this lesson you will learn all about relative clauses.

0:00 What you need to know
1:14 What are relative clauses?
3:13 Non-restrictive relative clauses
6:43 Restrictive relative clauses
7:47 Can you use WHICH in restrictive clauses?
10:36 More rules for choosing which relative pronoun
12:27 Pronunciation of relative clauses
13:38 Omitting the relative pronoun

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I am in the Mid Atlantic region and trained in public education and finished university and graduate education.. “That “ almost always sounds better than “which” in restrictive clauses and I rarely us “which”. Found your YouTube website and you are amazing!

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I think that sometimes “which” sounds better than “that” in restrictive clauses. Consider the following:

“We have in fact two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.”

This sentence is quite intricate - so it makes sense to savour it and thus to say it slowly. As it takes more time and effort to say “which” than to say “that”, I think that Bertrand Russell made a good stylistic choice when he penned this sentence.

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I used to call these two kinds of relative clauses "defining" and "non-defining"

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As a Portuguese language teacher, I noticed this subject easier and interesting, because its quite similar to the Portuguese language syntax.

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If memory serves, my reference grammar (Grasso - Bottalla, for Italian learners) says that "that" is imperative when the restriction is an actual restriction, i.e. when there is a collection of objects, or persons, and one must refer to only a part of them. If I say "the students that have bought a ticket will be able to get in the museum" I actually mean that maybe not all students will get in the museum, but only those that have bought the ticket. If I want to say that all students have tickets (I know, I bought it for them etc.) I will say "the students, who have the ticket, will be able to get into the museum" and that is because all of them have the ticket, so there is no "restriction".

By the same token, if I have more than one sister, I will definitely say: "the sister that lives in London gets married tomorrow" and not "the sister who lives in London gets married tomorrow". If I say "who" in this case, the implication is that I only have one sister. That all in "theoretical grammar".

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