Relative pronouns

The woman who is talking to my parents is my teacher 2.. The girl whose father is a police man is my classmate Position : After a noun.. Subject Subject Object Possessive... *Do not omi

Relative pronouns

who, whom, which, that, whose

Examples :

1 The woman who is talking to my parents is my

teacher

2 The house which is being built is mine

3 The boy whom my sister is taking care is her son

4 The girl whose father is a police man is my

classmate

Position :

After a noun.

Before a verb, subject + verb (clause), noun.

Subject

Subject Object

Possessive

*Do not omit who, which, that (Subject)

*Can omit whom, which, that (Object)

*Do not use that and article before noun after whose (Possessive)

Task 1: Rewrite the sentence by using relative pronouns

1 The man was friendly I met him yesterday

-> The man………

2 The books were expensive I bought them

-> The books………

3 The man is friendly He lives next to me

-> The man………

4 The chair is hard I am sitting on it

->The chair ………

5 The man called the police His car was stolen

->The man………

• That can’t be used after comma “,” and prepositions

(on, in, at, for, to,………)

• That can be used (after ):

 noun includes both person and thing

 unclear noun, superlatives

these words nothing, everything, anything ,only ,the first,

the last, all, little, much, none, no one, nobody.

• Comma “,” is used when noun is determined :

 Demonstrative + noun : this pen, these pens.

 Possessive : adjective (my, your, ….), case (Lan’s,…).

 Proper nouns : name of people (Lan, Hoa,…), name of things (food – hamburger,…… ).

1 The woman to that my mother is talking is my teacher.

-> to that  to whom

2 Pizza, that came from Italy, is also my favorite food.

-> that  which

3 Those shoes which I bought in the supermarket cost 500.000 dong.

500.000 dong.

4 The best man whom I admire is my father

5 Do you know the man whose a car was stolen yesterday ?

-> Omit article “a”

Task 2: Find and correct the mistakes