PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS - 2 ppsx

We use who – for people The book is about a girl who runs away from home..  Whom is generally used in formal contexts  Whom is used for direct objects people  To To whom am I speaki

We use who – for people

 The book is about a girl who runs away from home

 Where is the cheese which was in the fridge?

 Whom is generally used in formal contexts

 Whom is used for direct objects (people)

 To To whom am I speaking?

 The person whom you are trying to reach is not available.

 (Most of the time we would say ‘who,’ not

In informal language we can use

whom

 The book is about a girl that runs away from home

 Where is the cheese that was in the

fridge?

In some cases we can leave out

that

 The job (that) he got wasn`t very

interesting

 A woman (whom/that) my sister knows has just bought the house next door

We can`t leave out who, which, what

in relative clauses with extra information

that is important

 Dorothy, who does my hair, has just had

a baby

 I lent him “The Old Man and The

 We say whose for possession (‘of who’)

 We only use whose after people to refer to things that are theirs

 I know the boy whose goal is to fold

origami

 We use where for places

 This is the store where I bought that

dress

 Remember: This is the store which sells vegetables and fruits

 That was the day when I learned my

teacher was an alien

 Remember: That was the day which was the most important day of mine

 We use why to explain the reason

 The reason why I did it was because John was annoying me

 (Usually, it´s better to just make the

sentence shorter: ¨I did it because John

was annoying me.¨)

Preposition

summer.

yesterday

yesterday