the relative pronoun
DESCRIPTION
Starts a relative clause which is a subordinate clause. ( Clauses must have a subject and verb ) This subordinate clause tells more information about a noun/pronoun: it’s antecedent Relative pronouns relate groups of words to nouns or other pronouns who, whom, which, that, whose. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Starts a relative clause which is a subordinate clause. (Clauses must have a subject and verb)
This subordinate clause tells more information about a noun/pronoun: it’s antecedent
Relative pronouns relate groups of words to nouns or other pronouns
who, whom, which, that, whose
quīcuiuscuiquemquō
quīquōrumquibusquōsquibus
quaecuiuscuiquamquā quaequārumquibusquāsquibus
quodcuiuscuiquodquō quaequōrumquibusquaequibus
Nom.Nom.Gen.Gen.Dat.Dat.Acc.Acc.Abl.Abl.PL.Nom.Nom.Gen.Gen.Dat.Dat.Acc.Acc.Abl.Abl.
SG. M. F. N.
Case Number Gender, Whence do you get them?
Antecedent provides Gender Number
Case come from relative clause Latin relative clauses
Begin with the relative pronoun End with the finite verb
Rēgīnam [quae Britanniam regit] vīdī.
Vīdī rēgīnam [quae Britanniam regit]. Puer [cuius librum habeō] est amīcus
noster. Virum cui librum dedī vīdistī. Oppidum quod vīdit erat parvum. Lūdī ex quibus vēnimus erant magnī.
Inīmīcī erant virī quibuscum in aquā pugnābātis.
Puellam ā quā in lūdō interficiēbar amō. Tristis!
Portās ad quās nautae ā tē ductī sunt superāre debeō
Agricola [quī magnum agrum habet] pecumiam multam habebit.
Romanōs quī Graecōs interfaciebant studēmus.
Magister quō linguam Latinam noscitis insanus est.
Liber cui referis horribilis est.Ager in quō cras stabō magnus est.
The friendly girl whom I saw in the woods is approaching.
The words which were heard by the Romans were bad.
Why do you not endure the fortune that nature gave you?
The man to whom I entrusted the money was my true enemy.