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Title: 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.
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