Relative Pronouns
Subject
|
Object
|
Possessive
|
who
|
who(m)
|
whose
|
which
|
which
|
whose
|
that
|
that
|
- We use who and whom for people, and which for things.
Or we can use that for people or things.
- We use relative pronouns:
- after
a noun, to make it clear which person or thing we are talking about:
the house that Jack built
the woman who discovered radium
an eight-year-old boy who attempted to rob a
sweet shop
- to tell us more
about a person or thing:
My mother, who was born overseas, has always
been a great traveller.
Lord Thompson, who is 76, has just retired.
We had fish and chips, which is my favourite
meal.
- But we do not use that as a subject in this kind of relative clause.
- We use whose as the possessive form of who:
- We sometimes use whom as the object of a verb or preposition:
This is George, whom you met at our house last
year.
This is George’s brother, with whom I went to
school.
- But nowadays we normally use who:
This is George, who you met at our house last
year.
This is George’s brother, who I went to school
with.
- When whom or which have a preposition the preposition can come at the beginning of the clause...
I had an uncle in Germany, from who[m] I
inherited a bit of money.
We bought a chainsaw, with which we cut up all
the wood.
… or at the end of the
clause:
I had an uncle in Germany who[m] I inherited a
bit of money from.
We bought a chainsaw, which we cut all the wood
up with.
- We can use that at the beginning of the clause:
I had an uncle in Germany that I inherited a
bit of money from.
We bought a chainsaw that we cut all the wood
up with.
Source: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/pronouns/relative-pronouns
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