Relative pronouns

Zacky: Relative pronouns are adjectives that describe nouns.
The noun to be explained is calledthe antecedent. The antecedent is placed immediately before the relative.

Relative pronouns in the genitive case

I know the boy who is not clever.
Below the who is a sentence without a subject [is not clever].
Nouns (subject, object, noun in adverb) are omitted in sentences within a relational clause.
In the genitive case who is the subject in the sentence.

This is the usage of long sentences as adjectives of nouns.
Nouns (subject, object, noun in adverb) are omitted in sentences within a relational clause.

Relative pronouns in the object case (may be omitted)

That is the boy (that) I saw at school.
The word "whom" can be omitted.
The sentences below "whom" are sentences without an object [I (subject) saw (verb) [no object] at school (adverb)].
In sentences within a relational clause, the noun (object) is omitted.
In the objective case that (whom in the high school range) is the object in the sentence.
You can use the relative pronoun whom instead of that, although it is in the high school range. (whom is not common in English conversation.)



When using a relative pronoun as the object of a preposition in an adverb such as in which

This is the town in which Nadai lived. (Minamiyamashiro village in Kyoto Prefecture?)
The sentence after the relative becomes Nadal lived in, with the noun town missing after in
. After "which" is an adjective (Nadal lived in) to describe the town
.

Small tips

Relative pronouns are an area where many students stumble.
Mistakes in word order are easy to make.
The key point is that "the clause of a relative pronoun is a mass of adjectives describing a noun."

Short Notes

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