UNIT 13

RELATIVE PRONOUNS
FOR PEOPLE AND THINGS
 When
WHAT IS A
Who
RELATIVE
PRONOUN?

• We use relative pronouns to Whose

form relative clauses that will
give additional information
about something without
starting another sentence.
Which

• By combining sentences with a

relative clause, we become
more fluent, and we can avoid
repeating certain words.

Where That
 WHERE AND WHY DO WE USE THEM?

• Where do we use them? After the noun mentioned before.

• Why do we use them? To make clear which person or thing we’re talking
about and to avoid repetition of certain words

The sentences are compound by two clauses We join two ideas

referring to the
MAIN CLAUSE RELATIVE CLAUSE same thing by
This is the movie WHICH I wanted to watch using the relative
pronoun.

The relative clause tells us more about the noun in the main clause.
 RELATIVE PRONOUNS

Who Relates to people • My Aunt Ella, who is a journalist, is

coming to visit next week.
• The musician who wrote this song is
Mexican.
Which Relates to animal • The cat which is on the roof is mine.
and objects • This is the computer which I bought
yesterday.

That Relates to people, • The film that we saw yesterday was

animals and brilliant.
things. • I liked the dress that you wore last
night.

Whose Refers to • This is George, whose brother went

possession to school with me.
• That’s my neighbor whose dog bit
me.
 LET’S PRACTICE!

Complete the sentences by using the relative pronouns who / which / whose.

who
which
whose
which
who
whose

which
which
who ,
whose
Complete the text about Charles Dickens using « who » or « whose ».

1
WHO
Charles Dickens was an English writer ………………. lived from
1812 to 1870. The books he wrote have been translated into many
different languages.
2 WHOSE
Dickens, ………………………….. family was very poor, had to
start work when he was very young. In England at that time,
peopleWHO
……………………. could not pay their debts were sent to
WHOSE
prison. This happened to Dickens’ father ……………………. first
name was John. So Dickens,WHO …………………. was only a boy,
had to visit his father in prison.
3 Later Dickens’ books were based on people he had known. For
example, in ‘Oliver Twist’ he described children ………………
WHO
were poor and he wrote about orphans (children
……………………..
WHOSE parents had died.)
4 He married a woman ………………………..
WHOSE name was Catherine
and ………………….
WHOSE father was, in fact, Dickens’ first publisher.
 Review
• Relative pronouns take the place of nouns or pronouns.
• They always relate back to something or someone else.
• They are used to join two sentences that refer to the same things.

WHO WHICH THAT WHOSE

People Animals and things People, animals and Possession

things
Thank
you!