Overview
Students should be able to Identify relative and demonstrative pronouns.
Explain their positions and functions in passages
Use them in sentences.
What you'll learn
- Features The relative pronouns are: Whom, Whose, which, that, who
- Functions
- a) Who, whose, whom are used for human beings.
- b) ‘Which” and “that” are used to describe in animate objects and animals. However, that, can also be used for a person.
- Position:
- Relative pronouns are placed close to the words to which they relate. They take the place of a noun and also join two parts of a sentence/together e.g. “the girl who sells foodin the canteen will come tomorrow”.