Relative clauses
52 Relative clauses
B1relative clauses
In short
Aggiungere informazioni su un nome: who persone, which cose, that entrambi, whose possesso.
defining (necessaria, senza virgole, that va bene) · non-defining (in più, con virgole, mai that) · se il pronome è oggetto si può omettere
- The man who called is my uncle.
- My car, which is old, still works.
- The book (that) I'm reading is great.
Watch out: che non è sempre what: the book what I read ✗ → the book that I read
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- 52.1Relative pronouns
- 52.2Defining relative clauses
- 52.3Non-defining relative clauses
- 52.4The comma changes the meaning
- 52.5Omitting the relative pronoun
- 52.6Prepositions and "whose"
- 52.7Reduced relatives and sentence "which"