Relative pronouns and clauses

1. Important definitions before you begin

Clause: Is the minimum grammatical expression that has full meaning, it contains a noun and a verb.
- I ate pizza.
Sentence: Complete or compound ideas that provide more information than a clause.
- I ate a dessert for dinner.
Pronouns: Words that replace the name of people, things or animals.
- I, you, her, theirs.
Subject: The part of the sentence that does the action.
- She, my friend, Milo.
Object: The part of the sentence that receives the action.
- me, them, us.
Phrasal Verb: They are verbs with extra words that transform the meaning of it.
- fill in, look up to.
Placeholder: Words that replace words that you don’t know or you don’t remember.
- Bla bla bla, “name”.

A clause is a grammatical unit with a subject and a verb, there are different types of clauses in English:

Independent clause: Does not need another clause to make sense. We call them commonly as “Sentences”
Dependent clause: Needs another clause to make sense.

Let’s see an example:

Jhon is an English teacher who works at Platzi.
- “Jhon is an English teacher” is the independent clause of this sentence.
- “who” is called a relative pronoun.
- “works at Platzi” is the relative clause, because it’s connected to a relative pronoun.

Is the part of a sentence that connect clauses. We use them when we want to: