the second type of relative clause. Before we start discussing object

relative clauses,

let's quickly review subject relative clauses so we can see the difference

between subject and object relative clauses.

So, if you remember from the last video, we had these two sentences

"SMC is a community college. It is located close to UCLA."

So, we know that the second clause becomes the relative clause, and we know

that the subject "it" is replaced with the relative pronoun "that"

The subject is the same as the community college. When we take a look at object

relative clauses we look at these two sentences

"He is the professor. You saw him last week."

We're focusing on not the subject "you" instead we're focusing on the object.

Ok so, in this sentence "him" is referring to "the professor",

so the object in this sentence is the same as this noun in the first sentence

so when we put together these sentences, the second sentence will become the relative

clause, but we put it together a little bit differently.

We have "He is the professor WHOM you saw last week," and we'll take apart each

sentence to make it a little bit more clear.

Here's another example. "The textbook is heavy.

"The students bought it" So, again we have the first independent clause and

the second clause will become the relative clause, and in the second clause

here,

"It" is the object. We have subject "the students"

verb "bought" and then the object "it"

So when we put them together we have "The textbook which the students bought is heavy."

So you can see that this sentence right here fits into this sentence right after

the noun it is trying to describe. When we write object relative clauses we use the

relative pronouns

"who" "whom" "which" and "that".

So, we have an additional relative pronoun "whom". We use "who" for people, "whom"

for people, "which" for things and also places and as we said "ideas", and that for,

everything.

So let's take a look at a couple of practice problems. We have "The student is

Chinese."

"You met her yesterday". So, we have again two sentences, and we want to describe a

noun in this first sentence with this second sentence.

So we want to describe the noun "the student" with the second sentence

Now if you read the second sentence, "You met her yesterday" were focusing on again

the object. "The student

you met her yesterday is Chinese", so we want to combine these two sentences but

we still have the object we need to get rid of it.

We need to use a relative clause to connect the second sentence to first

sentence,

so we come up with "The student whom you met yesterday is Chinese."

So, we have all the parts of the original sentence here but we just moved the

object right after "the student" and we leave the

rest of the sentence.

So when we

get the complete sentence, we have "The student whom you met yesterday is

Chinese." Let's take a look at another example. "We have "The university is located in

Arizona."

"She attends this University." So if we try to guess which noun we're trying to

describe, in the first sentence with the second sentence we look for the noun

that's the same in both sentences. So we have "the university" has a subject in the

first sentence and in this sentence, "this university" is the object.

So, if we combine these sentences we just start by putting this whole sentence in

right after the noun we want to describe.

which is the university we get "The university

she attended this university is located in Arizona."

Of course thissentence is incorrect we need to delete "the University" and replace it

with a relative pronoun.

So, we have "The University which she attended is located in Arizona."

So again, you see that we have replaced "this university" since University is a

thing we use "which" the relative pronoun "which". We move it to a position right

after the noun we're trying to describe, and we get "The University which she

attended is located in Arizona.

Now you try this practice problem.