Teaching Relative clauses with a context. Too much choice So in my last post I did ask if anyone had any good ideas about contexts for presenting and practising relative clauses, but there was a deafening silence from the blogosphere! Perhaps this is like when you tell someone you speak a foreign language and the other person says ‘Go on! Say something’. You are left speechless, paralysed by the infinite choice of what you could say. Do we need to teach them at all? One solution to this that I mentioned before might, therefore, be not to teach them at all!
Some grammar olives for relative clauses One way awareness can drawn to relative clauses is through two-way translation. That’s the place I was telling you about yesterday.She’s the woman I was talking to earlier.Did you see I sent you that article I was telling you about? Thoughts on the controlled practice and free practice in PPP Relative clauses, common modifiers and chunks the car in frontthe car coming in the opposite directionthe car parked next to methe car I had before. How and why to use whom in a sentence.