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Relative Pronouns

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What are relative pronouns?

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Relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces a relative clause.

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It is called a relative pronoun because it relates to the word that its relative clause modifies.

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The most common are that, whose, whom, which and who.

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Examples

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That's the woman whom he married.

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The girl whose car is an awesome black Tesla is my favorite YouTuber.

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More examples.

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Doing Speleology is an activity that makes me feel fear and happiness at the same time.

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Yesterday I found a baby bird on the floor and I looked for the nest from which he had fallen

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Curiosity

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That is the most commonly used relative pronoun in spoken English

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As it can be used with both people and things

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It is used to replace which, who or whom in clauses that define the noun

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What do we use them for?

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We use relative pronouns to refer to a known person or a thing

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Mentioned before and to which we want to add more information or modify

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I hope you like it