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Lesson Q - Grammar Music

Here's a word you know: Relation. In one meaning, a relation is a person who is in your family. Your mother and father and sister and brother and sons and daughters are all related to you. We call a family member a relative or a relation.

Relative Pronouns are like family: WHO WHOM WHOSE WHICH THAT WHAT

Here is how Relative Pronouns relate. You could say:
I like the man. (and) He came to our house.
OR you could say:
I like the man who came to our house.

Did you see that? You just read a Relative Clause AND you knew what it meant.
I (S) like (V1) the man who (S) came (V2) to our house.

So you must watch for, and listen for: WHO WHOM WHOSE WHICH THAT WHAT
when they are in the middle of a sentence. Why? Because when those Relative Pronouns start another thought inside the main sentence, it is called a subordinate Clause.

Making a Clause is almost like making another sentence. Each of the 2 parts of this sentence has its own subject and its own verb. Now, do this sentence for us with a Relative Clause in it:

(S +DON'T/DOESN'T + V1 + O [ S + V1])
lives know who the man there don't I
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