Relative Pronouns

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Relative Pronouns

• who, whom, whose, which, that

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Definition

• Introduce dependent clauses.
• These pronouns are called relative pronouns
  because they relate the adjective clause to the
  word the clause modifies.

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Examples

• Sarah Boone was the woman who invented the
  ironing board.
• The relative pronoun who relates the adjective
  clause to woman.
• The relative pronoun acts as the subject of the
  dependent clause.

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• The boys apologized to the man whose window they
  had broken.
• Whose relates the clause to the man.

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Do these on your own.

• He is the player whom you were watching.
• Is this the suit that you wore to church?
• We saw a woman who was very tall.
• Ellen is one of the people whom I invited.