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Relative pronouns exerciseRelative pronouns are words like who, whom, which and that. They are used to combine two clauses. This grammar exercise tests your ability to use relative pronouns correctly. Complete the following sentences using an appropriate relative pronoun. 1. I have never met the people ………………… live next door. a) who b) that c) Either could be used here Answer: who / that In identifying relative clauses both ‘who’ and ‘that’ can be used to refer to people. 2. Those ………………… have not yet paid their fee should do so at once. a) who b) which c) whom Answer: who Both ‘who’ and ‘whom’ can refer to people. ‘Whom’ is used when the relative pronoun acts as the object of the verb in the relative clause. 3. It is a wonderful picture book ……………… will interest preschoolers. a) which b) who c) that Answer: which / that In identifying relative clauses both ‘which’ and ‘that’ can refer to objects. 4. I know a man ………………. son lives in Switzerland. a) who b) who’s c) whose Answer: whose ‘Whose’ is the possessive form of ‘who’. ‘Who’s’ is the contracted form of ‘who is’ or ‘who has’. 5. She is married to a painter of ……………………… you may have heard. a) whom b) that c) whose Answer: whom 6. He lives in a foreign country the name …………………. I have forgotten. a) of which b) of whose c) of that Answer: of which Instead of ‘whose + noun’, we can use ‘noun + of which’. The sentence can also be written as: He lives in a foreign country whose name I have forgotten. 7. I have brought everything ………………… you ordered. a) that b) what c) Either could be used here Answer: that 8. She got married again six months later, ………………… surprised everybody. a) which b) what c) that Answer: which ‘Which’ can refer to a whole clause that comes before. In this case it means ‘and that’. So, the sentence can also be written as: She married again six months later and that surprised everybody. 9. We have got ………………….. we need. a) that b) what c) that which Answer: what / that which Note that ‘that which’ is very unusual in modern English. 10. They rescued hundreds of refugees some ……………….. had been trapped in the mountain for weeks. a) of whom b) of them c) of which Answer: of whom
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