Relative pronouns exercise
Relative 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) whos
c) whose
Answer: whose
Whose is the possessive form of who. Whos 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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