Mini Explainer: Relative Clauses

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by Lucy Passmore1 view·Updated Apr 19, 2021
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  1. Hello. I'm lucy I'm an ant's author, a member of
  2. the wheel of adults.
  3. T If you're preparing for your I'll speaking test you
  4. may find it useful to learn how to use different
  5. types of structure.
  6. This could help you to improve your score for grammatical
  7. range and accuracy.
  8. In today's video, I'm going to explain how to form
  9. relative clauses.
  10. We use relative clauses to add extra information to a
  11. main idea in a sentence.
  12. If you watch my previous video series on sentence structure,
  13. you'll remember that sentences are formed of different clauses.
  14. These can represent complete ideas or incomplete ideas and they
  15. may be combined together clauses in a sentence may also
  16. be combined using linking words for example.
  17. And but although let's imagine that I'm doing part one
  18. of the aisle speaking test and the examiner asks me
  19. to talk about things I did when I was young.
  20. I might say when I was young I often played
  21. in the garden with anna.
  22. This is fine but we need a bit more information.
  23. Who is anna?
  24. Let's find out.
  25. Yeah. I've added some extra information.
  26. When I was young, I often played in the garden
  27. with anna, the girl who lived next door to me.
  28. Let's focus on the last part of that sentence for
  29. a moment.
  30. This is a relative clause.
  31. It tells us some more information about the girl.
  32. Relative clauses are a really useful way of extending your
  33. ideas when you're speaking and could help you to improve
  34. your school for grammatical range and accuracy.
  35. The more information on relative clauses.
  36. Watch my next video in this series on relative pronouns.
  37. And do you subscribe to our Youtube channel for more
  38. top tips on preparing for the aisles test.