Relative pronoun

1. RELATIVE PRONOUN
10º grade

2. USE
We can use
WHO, WHICH, THAT, WHERE and WHOSE
to join two separate sentences.

3. WHO
Use for people
Nutritionists are professionals.
They help you with your dietary habits.
Nutritionists are professionals who help you with your dietary habits.

4. WHERE
Use for places
I went to Africa on holiday.
It was very hot.
I went to Africa on holiday, where it was very hot.

5. WHICH
Use for things and
animals
They recommend eating fruit.
It is good for you.
They recommend eating fruit, which is good for you.

6. THAT
Use for people, things
and animals
Look at my car.
I bought the car yesterday.
Look at the car that I bought yesterday.

7. WHOSE
Use to refer to someone’s
possessions.
Luis has a long journey to school. His house is a two hour journey
away.
Luis, whose house is two hours away from school, has
a long journey.

8. EXERCISES - WHO, WHICH, THAT, WHERE and WHOSE
1) The new movie is about a boy ____ has lost his parents in a car accident.
2) That's the book ____ I recommended reading in class.
3) Is this the hotel ____ you are staying for the tournament?
4) That's the man ____ I spoke to the other day.
5) Where is the money ____ I gave you yesterday?
6) The youth hostel ____ we stayed last week was really big.

9. NONDEFINING RELATIVE
CLAUSES

10. USE
We use nondefining relative clauses to give us extra
information about a person or thing that has already
been identified. They are generally formal and not so
frequent in speech.
Luis, who lives on Staten Island, is currently a second year student at
Frank Sinatra High School.

11. NOTE
 We do not use that in nondefining relative clauses.
 Which and who can be used as the subject of the clause.
 When the nondefining relative clause does not come at the end of the sentence,
commas are necessary at the beginning and the end of the clause.
 We can sometimes omit the relative pronoun in defining relative clauses. We can
do this only when the pronoun refers to the object of the sentence.
Frank Sinatra school is the school (that) Luis attends. (The school is the object of the
sentence. It is a defining clause, so the pronoun that can be omitted.)