{"id":73932,"date":"2020-04-13T03:40:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T03:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73932"},"modified":"2024-05-23T04:33:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T04:33:07","slug":"identifying-relative-clauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/identifying-relative-clauses\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Relative Clauses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Read the following sentences and say whether the relative clause is <strong>identifying or non-identifying.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that identifying relative clauses are also known as defining or restrictive relative clauses. Similarly, non-identifying relative clauses are also known as non-defining or non-restrictive relative clauses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>During the summer vacation, I visited Tanjavoor, which is famous for its beutiful temples.<\/li><li>Mrs. Mehta, who lives next doors, is an eminent psychiatrist.<\/li><li>You should visit a store that deals in antiques.<\/li><li>The mother whose child had gone missing was frantic.<\/li><li>The girl who won the first prize in the drawing competition looked elated.<\/li><li>I talked to Rahul, who runs an animal shelter in the town.<\/li><li>I would like to visit Paris, which is known as the fashion capital of the world.<\/li><li>He who laughs last laughs best.<\/li><li>The doctor whom I consulted for my acne problem is a dermatologist.<\/li><li>My sister, who lives in Germany, is a doctor.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Answers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>which is famous for its beautiful temples (non-identifying)<\/li><li>who lives next doors (non-identifying)<\/li><li>that deals in antiques (identifying)<\/li><li>whose child had gone missing (identifying)<\/li><li>who won the first prize (identifying)<\/li><li>who runs an animal shelter (non-identifying)<\/li><li>which is known&#8230; (non-identifying)<\/li><li>who laughs last (identifying)<\/li><li>whom I consulted for&#8230; (identifying)<\/li><li>who lives in Germany (non-identifying)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn more about<a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/identifying-relative-clauses.htm\"> identifying relative clauses here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the following sentences and say whether the relative clause is identifying or non-identifying. Note that identifying relative clauses are also known as defining or restrictive relative clauses. Similarly, non-identifying relative clauses are also&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2619,2617,417,2618],"class_list":["post-73932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-defining-relative-clauses","tag-identifying-relative-clauses","tag-relative-clauses","tag-restrictive-relative-clauses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77598,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73932\/revisions\/77598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}