Relative pronouns and adverbs

RELATIVES PRONOUNS AND ADVERBS

A doctor is a person who/that treats sick people.

Dogs are animals which/that we can keep as pets.

This is a couple whose favourite winter sport is skiing.

Relative pronouns (who, which, whose, that) introduce relative clauses. We

use relative clauses to identify the noun in the main clause.:

The man who owns a shop is French.

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relative clause (identifies which man we are talking about)

• We use who/that instead of subject pronouns (I,
you, he, etc.) to refer to
people.:

• A girls – she lives next door – is from India.

A girl who lives next door is from India.

•We use which/that to refer to
objects or animals:

The horse – it won the race – is black.

The horse which/that won the race is black.

- We use whose instead of possessive adjectives (my,
your, his, etc.) with people,
objects and animals in order to
show possession.:

That’s the man – his car was stolen.

That’s the man whose car was stolen.

people

Who/that

things/animals

Which/that

possession

whose

place
time

where
when

Relative pronouns as subject or object

We do not omit the relative pronoun when it is the subject of the relative clause, that is, when there is not a noun or subject pronoun between the relative pronoun and the verb.:

I met a girl who/that is from Japan.

(The relative pronoun is the

subject, there is not another
pronoun or noun between
who and the verb is.)

We can omit the relativepronoun when it is the object of the relative clause, that is, when there is a noun or a subject pronoun between the relative pronoun and the verb.:

That’s the hat (which/that) I bought last week.

(The relative pronoun is the

object, there is the
subject pronoun I
between which/that and
the verb bought)

Ask and answer the questions:

Dickens / write Oliver Twist :
Who was Dickens? - Dickens was the man who/that wrote Oliver Twist.

1. Volta / invent the electric battery

2. Columbus / discover America

3. Von Zeppelin / build the first airship

4. A shoplifter/steals from a shop

5. Cleopatra / rule Egypt

Make sentences:

Dishwasher/ wash dishes: A dishwasher is a

machine which/that you use to wash dishes.

1. Flamingo / live in a warm climate

2. Lawn mower / cut grass

3. Typewriter / type letters

4. Lion / live in the jungle

5. Photocopier / make photocopies

Match column A with column B to make correct

sentences

1.The girl...

2.Is this the puppy...

3.The doctors...

4.The man...

5.The country...

6.The bicycle...

7.Is this the woman...

a) which you bought from the

pet shop?

b) whose wife had an accident

lives next door.

c) whose husband is a banker?
d) who lives next door is called

Helen.

e) which I like most is Austria.
f) who works in this hospital are

very good.

g) which I was riding belongs to

my brother.