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SS2 English Language

Pronouns

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”.