What's the point of worrying? At some point, worrying becomes, perhaps, the point. Since it surely releases endophines, dorphines, you know, al that stuff (not those, I made them up...).
We could also talk about some English grammar, sicne that's the vi be around here - I'm personally wondering how non-defining relative clauses work - maybe I'l get that explained to me at some point...
Or not.
here are some buillet points about that:
- A non-defining relative clause gives extra information about a noun.
- The sentence is still complete without the extra information.
- We always use commas to separate the clause from the rest of the sentence.
- We usually use who for people.
- We use which for things and animals.
- We use whose to show possession.
- We can use where for places.
- We can use when for times.
- We do not use "that" in non-defining relative clauses.
- We cannot leave out the relative pronoun.
- Example: My brother, who lives in Paris, is a doctor.
- Example: The Eiffel Tower, which was built in 1889, is very famous.
- Example: Sarah, whose car is red, works at the bank.
- Example: Berlin, where I lived for five years, is a great city.
- Example: 2004, when Facebook was founded, changed social media forever.
- Non-defining clauses often add interesting background information.
- They are common in written English and formal speech.
- They help us avoid writing two short sentences.
- Remember the commas—they are an important part of the grammar.
- If removing the clause does not change which person or thing we mean, the clause is probably non-defining.
Compare
- Defining: The man who is wearing a blue jacket is my uncle. (This tells us which man.)
- Non-defining: My uncle, who is wearing a blue jacket, is waiting outside. (We already know which uncle; the clothing is just extra information.)
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