relative pronouns he was hit by a flowerpot that had just fallen. he was knocked down by the courier...
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Relative Pronouns
• He was hit by a flowerpot that had just fallen.
• He was knocked down by the courier who delivers the overnight mail.
• She was hired by the Inter-Tel company, which makes international telephone equipment.
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Relative PronounsA relative pronoun links two clauses into a single
complex clause.
• (1) This is a house. Jack built this house.
• (2) This is the house that Jack built.
Sentence (2) consists of two clauses, a main clause (This is the house) and a relative clause (that Jack built). The word that is a relative pronoun.
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Relative PronounsRelative Pronoun begins a subordinate clause and
connects that clause to another noun that precedes it in the sentence.
Relative pronouns list: who, whom, whose, whoever, whomever, which, whichever, that, what, whatever.
Examples • It is a book that is difficult to ignore. • The dog, which is a terrier, is four years old. • I will consider renting or buying, whichever works out
best.
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Relative Pronouns• All relative pronouns do not change the form with gender,
person, or number. Only who changes form with case.
Subjective: who Objective: whom Possessive: whose
Examples • The girl who told me the story lives down the street. • The girl whom I chose will get a present. • I am not sure whose that is.
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Relative PronounsPeople Things
• Subjective who which or that• Objective whom which or that• possessive whose whoseExamples:1. People who study physics are usually very intelligent.:
(‘people’ is the subject of the verb ‘study”)2. To whom did you give it? : (‘whom’ is the object of the
preposition “to”)3 From the court came the voices of the players whose match had
not finished. :
• (‘whose’ indicates who the match belongs to)
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Example
The man who lives next to me has a goat.
This sentence consists of the main clause “The man has a goat.”,
but specifying which man “who lives next to me”
The relative pronoun is WHO