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    Learn English > English lessons and exercises > English test #119351: Relative pronouns
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    Relative pronouns


    Relative pronouns are grammatical words used to link sentences in order to avoid the repeated information they involve.

     

    When two sentences are linked by a relative pronoun, they form the combination of: main clause + relative clause.

    e.g.Police stopped the car. The car was driving fast.

    * Police stopped the car that/which was driving fast

    Main clause: Police stopped the car

    Relative clause: that/which was driving fast

    Relative pronoun (a substitution to avoid repetition): that/which

    We have different types or relative pronouns. Each type may substitute: a person, an animal, a thing, a place, a thing that belongs to someone, or a person who is related to someone else. 

     

    1- Relative pronouns substituting a person: 

    Who, that

    e.g. * This is my father. My father works in the American embassy. 

    * This is my father who works in the American embassy. 

    * This is my father that works in the American embassy. 

    2- Relative pronouns substituting an animal

    That, which

    e.g. * The dog was barking all the night. The dog didn't let me sleep adequately. 

    * The dog, that was barking all the night, didn't let me sleep adequately. 

    * The dog, which was barking all the night, didn't let me sleep adequately. 

    3- Relative pronouns substituting a thing: 

    That, which

    e.g.She has a book. Everybody was looking for that book.

    * She has the book that everybody was looking for.

    * She has the book which everybody was looking for.

    4- Relative pronouns substituting a place:

    Where

    e.g.I dream of going to Malaysia. In Malaysia there's coupling of urbanism and beauty of nature.

    * I dream of going to Malaysia where coupling of urbanism and beauty of nature is there.

     

    5- Relative pronouns substituting a thing that belongs to someone

    Whose

    e.g.I visited my sister. My sister's leg is broken. 

    * I visited my sister whose leg is broken. 

     

    6- Relative pronouns substituting a person who is related to someone else: 

    Whose

    e.g.He's a doctor. The brother of the doctor died of a mere flu.

    * He's the doctor whose brother died of a mere flu.


    The relative pronoun 'That' is complicated as we can't use it anywhere, but we have to use it after a superlative for instance.

    Thus, it is not used very much in that test.

    Please read that interesting and helpful test ...  test

     

     



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