The woman who / that lives next door is a doctor. となりに住んでいる女性は医者だ。 Where is the cheese that / which was in the fridge? 冷蔵庫にあったチーズはどこ？ このふたつの文の who, which, that は、relative clause（関係詞節）の主語の役割をしています。

An essential relative clause provides necessary, defining information about the noun. On the other hand, non‐ essential relative clauses provide additional, non‐necessary information about the noun.

A relative clause can be used to give additional information about a noun. They are introduced by a relative pronoun like 'that', 'which', 'who', 'whose', 'where' and 'when'. For example: I won’t ...

A relative clause can be used to give additional information about a noun. They are introduced by a relative pronoun like 'that', 'which', 'who', 'whose', 'where' and 'when'. For example: I won’t ...

1. Relative clauses are “embedded” grammatical structures, contained inside other grammatical structures. 2. Relative clauses play a central role in English discourse. 3. Relative clause knowledge is ...

1 Department of English Language & Literature, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea 2 School of Foreign Languages, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, China In the present paper, we address two ...