viernes, 11 de julio de 2014


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

  •          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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