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Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
A Relative Pronouns represents a preceding word.
This preceding word is called the Antecedent.
eg : The man
who is in the garden
is my uncle.
In this sentence, the word " who
" is a relative pronoun, because it represents the preceding word
" man ". Therefore, "
man " is the Antecedent of " who ".
The relative Pronouns are : -- who , whose, whom , which that, and
what.
Who and whom
refer persons.
The man who came is a doctor.
The man whom you love is kind.
Whose refers both to persons
and things.
The lady whose box is lost is
her daughter.
The book whose cover is red is
mine.
Which refers to lower animals
and thing.
That is often used for " who,
" " whom " or " which " but never
for ' whose. "
The boy that ( or who )
won the prize is clever.
The man that ( or whom )
you saw is my brother.
This is the house that ( or
which ) Chang bought.
What is equal to " that
which " or " the thing which " . It contains the
meaning of both the relative pronoun and its antecedent.
I do not know what ( that
which ) he bought.
I do not know what ( the
thing which ) he bought.
Note : - All relative pronouns have the
singular and plural alike.
Personal
Interrogative
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