Identify relative pronouns
Key Notes:
🎈 A relative pronoun introduces a dependent (or relative) clause that describes a noun or pronoun. The five main relative pronouns are who, whom, whose, which, and that.
- The woman who lives next door grows tomatoes in her garden.
- Peter, whom you met yesterday, has four younger brothers.
- Emily, whose hair is quite long, likes wearing plaits.
- I just read Janet’s new book, which came out last month.
- This is the dress that I wore to my uncle’s wedding.
Learn with an example
1)Select the relative pronoun.
Did you help the traveler whose suitcase was lost?
- The relative pronoun is whose. It introduces a dependent clause that describes the noun traveler.
- Did you help the traveler whose suitcase was lost?
2)Select the relative pronoun.
Are you happy with the people whom we elected?
- The relative pronoun is whom. It introduces a dependent clause that describes the noun people.
- Are you happy with the people whom we elected?
3)Select the relative pronoun.
Gary, whose clothes are always in style, clearly knows fashion.
- The relative pronoun is whose. It introduces a dependent clause that describes the noun Gary.
- Gary, whose clothes are always in style, clearly knows fashion.
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