Non-defining relative clauses

  1. We use non-defining relative clauses to give information that is not essential about someone or something. Non-defining relative clauses are always introduced by a relative pronoun ('who', 'which', 'whose' and 'whom')
    1. My grandfather, who is 87, goes swimming every day
    2. Yesterday I met a woman called Susan, whose husband works in London
  2. Non-defining clauses give extra information to the sentence; if we remove the non-defining clause, the sentence still has the same meaning
    1. My grandfather, who is 87, goes swimming every day / My grandfather goes swimming every day
    2. Yesterday I met a woman called Susan, whose husband works in London / Yesterday I met a woman called Susan
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