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Relative pronouns

When two sentences are linked by a relative pronoun, they form the combination of: main clause + relative clause.

e.g. * Police stopped the car. The car was driving fast.

* Police stopped the car that/which was driving fast. 

Main clause: Police stopped the car

Relative clause: that/which was driving fast

Relative pronoun (a substitution to avoid repetition): that/which

We have different types or relative pronouns. Each type may substitute: a person, an animal, a thing, a place, a thing that belongs to someone, or a person who is related to someone else. 

1- Relative pronouns substituting a person: 

Who, that

e.g. * This is my father. My father works in the American embassy. 

* This is my father who works in the American embassy. 

* This is my father that works in the American embassy. 

2- Relative pronouns substituting an animal : 

That, which

e.g. * The dog was barking all the night. The dog didn't let me sleep adequately. 

* The dog, that was barking all the night, didn't let me sleep adequately. 

* The dog, which was barking all the night, didn't let me sleep adequately. 

3- Relative pronouns substituting a thing: 

That, which

e.g. * She has a book. Everybody was looking for that book.

* She has the book that everybody was looking for.

* She has the book which everybody was looking for.

4- Relative pronouns substituting a place:

Where

e.g. * I dream of going to Malaysia. In Malaysia there's coupling of urbanism and beauty of nature.

* I dream of going to Malaysia where coupling of urbanism and beauty of nature is there.

5- Relative pronouns substituting a thing that belongs to someone: 

Whose

e.g. * I visited my sister. My sister's leg is broken. 

* I visited my sister whose leg is broken. 

6- Relative pronouns substituting a person who is related to someone else: 

Whose

e.g. * He's a doctor. The brother of the doctor died of a mere flu.

* He's the doctor whose brother died of a mere flu.

The relative pronoun 'That' is complicated as we can't use it anywhere, but we have to use it after a superlative for instance.

Thus, it is not used very much in that test.

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