Relative pronouns (possessive)
. I know the boy. (I know the boy.)+
His father is our school teacher. The two sentences can be made into one sentence with the relative pronouns.
[His (his) is the possessive of He (he is), (He is used in the subject position, so it is called the genitive)]
I know the boy whose father is our school teacher.
Use whose with non-persons
whose father is our school teacher. A antecedent is a noun modified by a relative pronoun
. In the above sentence, the antecedent is the boy
. The following adjective describes the boy as an adjective.
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