How can you add more to the sentence without changing the meaning? How can you create more complex sentences? How do you make longer sentences in English? let's learn about the relative clauses and how they can expand a sentence and its complexity. Relative words introduce phrases that describe the noun of the main clause in more ways.
"Where", "when" and "whereby".
"Where" is the word used to describe a location.
• This is the place the driver sits in the car.
"When" is the relative word to describe time.
• She is looking forward to a time when she does not wear shoulder pads.
"Whereby" is used to refer to a process of things happening.
• Learning is a process whereby you improve your English all the time.
This is the house where Charles Darwin was born.
I when remember when I first met you.
This is how you get the trains whereby you look for the platform first.
"Whose" is used to show possession.
• This is the builder whose customers built the house.
They are in charge of whose idea it was to do this project.
"What" is used to describe the "the things which".
• I don't what you want, but I am excited.
• These are the books that I have been writing for a few years.
A common mistake with the order within relative structures.
If there is a question word such as "where" or "why" then the structure is normal and does not change into a question.
This is just what we were looking for= RIGHT
This is just what were we looking for = WRONG
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