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The German Department of CBC Monkstown is a committed and vibrant department, facilitating learners of all abilities to achieve their full potential as speakers of the EU's most spoken mother tongue. Over the years we have built on excellent classroom practice to enrich the learning experience of our students with a highly successful exchange program, language assistants, pen-pals and the use of ICT and interactive digital media projects.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Relativpronomen

Following up on yesterday's sixth year class, I thought I'd put this up.

Relative pronouns are quite tricky. They look and behave like articles. In a relative clause, they refer back to a noun in the previous clause. What's handy about them, is that because they behave and look like definite articles, they can hold all the grammatical information of the noun they refer to. If a noun is a subject, is masculine and is singular, then the relative pronoun with behave like a masculine, singular subject. Simples!

Remember that in a relative clause, the  verb always goes to the end.

Click below to find a really good explanation of relative pronouns & clauses, with online exercises with which to practice.

Relative pronouns & Clauses: explanation and exercises