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Use relative clauses

that it's not so complicated and quite simple to add to your essays or your reports or your articles to to make it more advanced and more sophisticated so an example of a non-de...

Course: Cambridge language skillsSection: Five ways to improve essaysSubtitles: en

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see

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that it's not so complicated and quite

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simple to add to your essays or your

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reports or your articles

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to to make it more advanced and more

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sophisticated so an example of a

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non-defining relative clause is climate

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change which has been an issue for many

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decades will continue to be a problem

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so here we have

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climate change will continue to be a

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problem

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that's a sentence on its own but if you

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put a non-defining relative clause in

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the middle between the commas

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then you're adding extra non-essential

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information it's not defining the

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subject

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it's just extra information so climate

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change which has been an issue for many

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decades will continue to be a problem a

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quick look at a defining relative clause

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the issue which concerns most people

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nowadays is climate change so here

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the clause that relative clause

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is not between commas because it's a

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defining relative clause it's defining

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issue so which issue is it because there

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are many issues but you need to define

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which issue with the clause so in this

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case the issue which most people are

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worried about that particular issue

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is climate change so it's it's essential

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information

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