RELATIVE CLAUSES AND RELATIVE PRONOUNS

Can you omit the pronoun? What's the name of the girl who you were speaking to in the cafeteria today?

• Yes

• No

Can you omit the pronoun? She was dancing with a boy who had green hair.

• Yes

• No

In a non- defining clause...

• we can omit the information given.

• we cannot omit the information given.

In a defining clause, we can use that instead of who/ which.

• Yes

• No

We use WHERE when the antecedent is:

• a place

• a person

• an object

Sam knows a man ___________ brother works for the president.

• who

• whose

• whom

Food ________ is imported from other countries is expensive.

• that

• where

• why

My grandfather remembers the time ___________ there was no television.

• where

• that

• when

Do you know the reason ___________ there are no penguins at the North Pole?

• where

• why

• whose

Most of the people _________ she met were from Sydney.

• whom

• when

• who