Grammar Tips - Relative Clauses & Passives

RELATIVE CLAUSES

• We use Relative Clauses to join two sentences, and to give additional information about something:

              - Do you know the girl who is talking to Tom?
              - George ate the apple which was lying on the table.

• By combining sentences with a relative clause your text becomes more fluent and you avoid repeating certain words.
• If you want a more detailed explanation, click HERE.
• If you need more practice you can do some online EXERCISES.

 PASSIVES

•  The Passive voice is used when the focus is on the ACTION, it's not important who or what is performing it.

                - My bike was stolen.
                - The road is being repaired.

• See uses & form of passive sentences HERE.
• You can practise by doing some EXERCISES. For exercises with passives in simple present click HERE; for passives in simple past click HERE.