Relative Pronouns

Relative Pronouns

Multiple Choice

What's a pronoun?

• Action words

• Words that name a person, place, thing or idea

• Words that replace a noun

• Words that modify an noun 

• W

​Objective

​By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

​1. Recall pronoun and pronoun types

​2. Identify the relative pronouns who, whom, that, whose, and which

​3. Differentiate between uses

Multiple Choice

She, her, him, they, and his are examples of pronouns.

• True

• False

​Relative Pronouns

• ​A relative pronoun is a word that introduces a dependent (or relative) clause and connects it to an independent clause.

• Relative clauses are also sometimes called adjective clauses because they identify or give us additional information about the subject of the independent clause they relate to.

​Relative pronouns, like conjunctions, are words that join clauses—in this case, a relative clause to its main clause. The type of relative pronoun used depends on what kind of noun is being described.

Multiple Choice

Dependent clauses can stand alone.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Relative clauses are also sometimes called adjective clauses.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Relative clauses identify or give us additional information about the subject of the independent clause they relate to.

• True

• False

​Let's look at some examples!

​Let's try them in sentences.

• ​Who: Refers to a person (as the verb’s subject)

• Whom: Refers to a person (as the verb’s object)

• Which: Refers to an animal or thing

• Whose: a possessive form of who

• That: Refers to a person, animal, or thing

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​Lord Thompson, who is 76, has just retired.

​This is George’s brother, with whom I went to school.

This is the house which Jack built.​

This is George, whose brother went to school with me.

Marie Curie is the woman that discovered radium.

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​Let's put it to practice, shall we?

Multiple Choice

Identify the correct relative pronoun for the following sentence:

Lord Thompson, ____ is 76, has just retired.

• who/whom

• that/which

• whose

Multiple Choice

Identify the correct relative pronoun for the following sentence:

This is Mr and Mrs Andrews, ____ children I teach.

• who/whom

• that/which

• whose

Multiple Choice

Identify the correct relative pronoun for the following sentence:

The man ____ I marry will have to be someone really special.

• who/whom

• that/which

• whose

Multiple Choice

Identify the correct relative pronoun for the following sentence:

I want a mobile phone ____ takes good photos.

• who/whom

• that/which

• whose

Multiple Choice

Identify the correct relative pronoun for the following sentence:

We had fish and chips, ____ I always enjoy.

• who/whom

• that/which

• whose

​REMEMBER:

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Relative pronouns, like conjunctions, are words that join clauses—in this case, a relative clause to its main clause. The type of relative pronoun used depends on what kind of noun is being described.

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• ​Who: Refers to a person (as the verb’s subject)

• Whom: Refers to a person (as the verb’s object)

• Which: Refers to an animal or thing

• Whose: a possessive form of who

• That: Refers to a person, animal, or thing

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