Relative clauses are Subordinate clauses that do a similar job to adjectives:
She was a wicked woman. (adjective)
While they were eating, a woman who had a bad name crept into the room and knelt at the feet of Jesus.(relative clause)
Relative clauses are used as post modifiers in noun phrases and are introduced by one of the Relative Pronouns:
Who, whom, whose, which, that.
Sometimes the relative pronoun is missed out:
Could you be the person they’re looking for?
This could also be written:
Could you be the person whom they’re looking for?
It is also possible to have relative clauses that do not contain a finite verb. This verb in a non-finite relative clause can be an infinitive, a present participle, or a past participle.
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