

Relative Clauses
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4th - 6th Grade
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Paul Lavis
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Relative Clauses
Year 5/6

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Your Learning Journey
Where are you currently?
What do you already know about relative clauses?
What would you like to find out?
Pre-Structural
Uni-Structural
Multi-Structural
Relational
Extended Abstract
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Open Ended
FLASHBACK
What is a main clause?
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Open Ended
FLASHBACK
What is a subordinate clause?
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Relative Clauses
A relative clause is a type of subordinate clause.
It wouldn't make sense on its own.
They give extra information about a noun.
It's connected to the main clause of a sentence using a relative pronoun - words like who, whom, which, that or whose.
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Relative clauses and pronouns
Relative pronouns vary depending on the person they refer to:
‘Who’ refers to a person or people.
‘Which’ refers to a thing, a place or animals. ‘That’ refers to a thing, a place or a person. ‘When’ refers to a time.
‘Where’ refers to a place.
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Multiple Choice
What is the relative pronoun in this sentence?
We went to the new swimming pool, which has three fantastic slides.
went
pool
which
fantastic
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Fill in the Blanks
What is the relative pronoun in this sentence?
Josie, who loves to play football, was picked to play for the county team.
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Fill in the Blanks
What is the relative pronoun in this sentence?
Samuel, whose pen had run out, put his hand up to ask for a new one.
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Fill in the Blanks
What is the relative pronoun in this sentence?
The boy whom you met last week is coming over to visit later.
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Fill in the Blanks
What is the relative pronoun in this sentence?
My grandad found the rabbit that had escaped.
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Open Ended
Can you think of another relative clause to go in this complex sentence?
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Open Ended
Can you create a sentence about this cat using a relative clause?
Things to remember:
- The main clause should make sense on its own.
- The relative clause adds extra detail about a noun.
- There should be a relative pronoun, e.g. which, whose, whom, when, where.
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Open Ended
Can you change these two simple sentences (both including 1 main clause) into a complex sentence that uses a relative clause?
Mia finally completed the race. Her legs were aching.
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What have you achieved today? How?
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Relative Clauses
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