Writing Academic English 4th Edition

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who,which,
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Restrictive Peoplesavetimeandenergy.=!=FleJ'usemicrowaveovens.
who,that Peoplewhousemicrowaveovenssavetimeandenergy.
Peoplethatusemicrowaveovenssavetimeandenergy.(jnformal)
Nonrestrictive Microwavecookingis notpopularwithmostprofessionalchefs.
who ProfessionaleI=fefssaythatfastcookingdoesnotallowflavors
toblend.
Microwavecookingisnotpopularwithmostprofessionalchefs,who
saythatfastcookingdoesnotallowflavorstoblend.
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Restrictive Ovensarecapableofcookingfoodquickly.=!=FleJ'usemicrowaveenergy.
that Ovensthatusemicrowaveenergyarecapableofcookingfoods
quickly.
Nonrestrictive Anelectrontubeintheovenproducesmicrowaves.Miorowaveocook
which byagitating'thewatermoleculesinfood.
Anelectrontubeintheovenproducesmicrowaves,whichcookby
agitatingthewatermoleculesinfood.

Thefollowingexamplesshowyouhowtocombinetwosentencestomakea new
sentencecontaininga subjectpatternadjectiveclause.

Inthispattern,who,which,andthatcanbeeithersingularorplural.Maketheverb
agreewiththeantecedent.
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Ihavenotreadthemagazinethatis lyingonthecoffeetable.
(Theverbislyingis singulartoagreewiththesingularantecedentmagazine.)
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Ihavenotreadthemagazinesthatarelyingonthecoffeetable.
(Theverbarelyingis pluraltoagreewiththepluralantecedentmagazines.)

Arelativepronouncanbethesubjectofitsownclause.

Therearedifferenttypesofadjectiveclauses.Ineachdifferenttype,therelativepro-
nounhasa differentfunction.It maybea subjectoranobjectinitsownclause,
it mayreplacea possessiveword.

RelativePronounsasSubjects.

KindsofAdjectiveClauses..


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