how to punctuate the Relative Clauses

Relative clause

• adds essential information to the main clause.

• adds non-essential information to the main clause.

• Doesn't add any information to the main clause.

• adds information to the main clause wither it is a essential or non-essential.

Defining relative clause

• adds non-essential information to the verb of the main clause.

• adds information wither it is essential or non-essential.

• adds essential information about the verb of the main claus.

• adds non-essential information about the noun or pronoun in the main clause

Non-defining relative clause

• adds non-essential information to the main clause.

• adds essential information to the verb of the main clause.

• Q adds any information to the main clause wither it is essential or non-essential.

• Don't add any information to the main clause.

Commas comes to:

• separate all additional information that Is in the relative clause wither essential or non-essential.

• separate the essential information that is in the relative clause.

• sepertate the non-essential information

We use commas with

• Defining relative clauses

• non-defining relative clauses

• All relative clauses

The car that my parents bought is red

This sentence :

• needs to be set off by commas.

• not need to be set off by commas.