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/ nJr to Language : Relative Clauses 1 Read the following sentences from the Hercules myth and answer the questions below . Hercules easily killed the lion that had frightened so many people . Hera , who was a goddess and Zeus's wife , was jealous . & What kind of information is given in the highlighted phrases ? & To whom or what does each highlighted phrase refer ? Relative clauses give information about a person , an anima \ , a place , a thing or an idea . There 3 ^ two kinds of relative clauses . Defining Clauses The relative clause can give information that helps to identify the noun or noun phrase ( the person , animal , place , thing or idea ) . Hercules easily killed the lion that had frightened so many people . 2 Which lion was killed by Hercules according to the above sentence ? Won -defining Clauses The relative clause can be used to give additional information about the noun or noun phrase . Hera , who was a goddess and Zeus's wife , was jealous . > What additional information is given about Hera in the above sentence ? The relative pronoun whose is used when the noun referred to is in the possessive form . The word "whose" means "belonging to . " Hercules , whose strengths were extraordinary , performed many heroic deeds . 4 Whose strengths were extraordinary according to the above sentence ? 5 Look at the first two paragraphs of the Hercules myth on page 8 . Find two more sentences that have relative clauses . What type of relative clause is each one — defining or non-defining ? No punctuation is used to separate this type of clause from the rest of the sentence . This type of relative clause is always separated from the rest of the sentence by two commas .
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