🔗 Grammar B2-10: Relative clauses: full range

The tenth material of the Fleydo B2 grammar series completes the relative-clause system a learner half-owns after B1. Nothing from the defining and non-defining materials is re-taught; instead the clause is treated as what it becomes at B2 — a control for register and a device for packing two facts into one sentence. The spine is the preposition. A compare-and-verdict pair sets the team I play for against the team for which I play and the man who I spoke to against the man to whom I spoke, then says exactly when the formal version earns its place: writing that will be read rather than heard, fixed phrases such as in which case and the extent to which, and long clauses where a stranded preposition lands miles from its noun. The hard rule that governs everything follows: after a preposition only which and whom survive — never that, never who, and nothing may be dropped. Whom then gets a section of its own, reduced to a swap test — him or her means whom, he or she means who — with the overcorrection the candidate whom applied named as the error it is. The quantifier machine takes two worked runs, because thirty students, most of whom walk to school and two proposals, neither of which was affordable are precisely the structures that lift a B2 essay out of the comma splice. Whose is then freed from people (a company whose products, a building whose roof), when, where and why get their formal in which equivalents, and what is explained as a noun and a clause fused into one word — which is why the thing what can never be written. Clause-sized which returns briefly, now carrying prepositions: in which case, at which point, none of which. A four-question decision list (formal or spoken? preposition involved? amount involved? person or thing, subject or object?) is followed by thirty-six explained multiple-choice items in five sets, a 159-word magazine profile with ten tappable clauses, a twelve-chip sorter of mirror pairs sorted by register alone, six repairs and four traps. Teacher notes carry a 45-minute sequence, the arrow board move, the him-not-whom rescue and Cambridge B2 First relevance.