1、Unit 4 EarthquakesAn attributive clauses gives more information about someone or something referred to in the main clauses. e.g. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.An attributive clauses may begin with a relative pronoun such as that, who, which, whose. Find the sent
2、ences with attributive clauses from the reading passage.1) It was felt in Beijing, which is more that two hundred kilometres away.2) A huge crack that was eight kilometres along and thirty metres wide cut across houses, roads and canals. 3) The number of people who were killed or injured reached mor
3、e than 400,000.4) Then, later that afternoon, another big quake which was almost as strong as the first one shook Tangshan.5) The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.More examples:6) The man (whom / who / that ) I have to phone lives in Canada.7) The girl whos
4、e work got the prize is the youngest in her class.8) Its the house whose door is painted red.定语从句是在复合句中起定语作用，修饰某一名词或代词的从句。被定语从句修饰的词叫先行词。引导定语从句的关系词有关系代词（ that, which, who, whom, whose等）和关系副词 (where, when, why等 )。9) The people who / that called yesterday want to buy the house.10) This is the book (whi
5、ch / that) you wanted.关系词在先行词和定语从句之间起着三个作用： 连接主句和从句； 指代先行词； 在从句中作句子成分。本单元我们先来学习关系代词引导的定语从句。【 自我归纳 】 通过观察上面所列课本例句，归纳关系代词引导的定语从句的用法如下： 关系代词 who指人，在定语从句中作主语或宾语（句 3、句 5、句 6）。 关系代词 whom指人，在定语从句中作宾语 , 在口语和非正式文体中可用 who或that替换 （句 6） 。 关系代词 which指物，在定语从句中作主语或宾语（句 4、句 10）。 关系代词 that既可以指人也可以指 _，在定语从句中作主语或宾语（句
6、2、句 6、句 9、句 10）。 关系代词 whose既可指人也可指物，在定语从句中作 _（句 7、句 8）。注意：关系代词在从句中作宾语时，在口语中可省略（句 6、句 10）。物定语 通常使用 that引导定语从句的情况： 当先行词为 all, everything, anything, nothing, much, little， none等不定代词或先行词被 only, few, little, no, all, every, very等词修饰时。如：Dont believe everything that he tells you.All the presents that your
7、friends give you on your birthday should be put away. 当先行词同时包括人和物时。如：Then they talked of the persons and things that interested them. 当先行词前有序数词或形容词的最高级修饰时。如：The first thing that must be done now is to put up a tent.Mount Huangshan is one of the most beautiful mountains in China that Ive ever visited.
