THE RELATIVE PRONOUNS I. THE GENERAL RULES: FUNCTION/ANTECEDENT PERSON THINGS/ANIMALS SUBJECT WHO WHICH OBJECT WHOM WHICH POSSESSIVE WHOSE WHOSE/ OF WHICH II. EXAMPLES: 1. Do you know the man who wrote these poem? 2. my employer, whom I dislike, works in the next room. 3. Is that the man for whom you have been waiting? 4. Alex Cook is a man whose opinions I respect. 5. That is the girl whose father works in the foundery. 6. Swimming, which is a sport, makes people strong. 7. The flowers which you bought are beautiful. III. EXERCISE 1. The woman understands me best. She is my mother. 2. The park has a lake in it. The park is near our house. The park 3. This article praises national heroes. The history books have forgotten them. This article . 4. I’ll introduce you to the man. His support for the project is essential. I’ll introduce . 5. The dam is nearly empty. We receive our water supply from it. The dam 6. I put my watch in a certain place. I cannot remember the place. I put . 7. The clerk doesn’t work here anymore. You asked about him. The clerk . 8. He sold me a dozen eggs. Half of them were bad. He sold 9. I never again meet the man. He gave us so much help in Paris. --> I never . . THE RELATIVE PRONOUNS I. THE GENERAL RULES: FUNCTION/ANTECEDENT PERSON THINGS/ANIMALS