RELATIVE CLAUSES ALLOW US TO GIVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NOUN IN THE SENTENCE.
Although we could say . . .
Although we could say . . .
- ‘I bought a book. The book is intereting’, or ‘We stayed in a hotel. The hotel was convenient’,
- ‘The book that I bought is interesting’, and ‘The hotel that we stayed in was convenient’.
Read this step-by-step explanation, or skip to the video at the bottom of the page (or better yet, try both).
Sentence with relative clause:
私がかった本は、おもしろい です。
We actually started with two ideas that we wanted to combine.
Forming the relative clause - step by step:
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And that's it, really. It's a lot quicker to do than to explain. Here are some more examples:
Examples of relative clauses:
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