Lesson 59: Unit 114 - Relative Pronouns.

About this lesson

In this lesson you will learn how to use the relative pronouns who, which, that and whose to join sentences and describe people and things. You will understand when to use who (for people), which (for objects) and whose (for possession). Through practical exercises you will learn to form complex sentences, following models from real situations. The lesson includes stories, descriptions of professions and objects, and plenty of examples for active practice.

40 minutes

What you'll learn

• Use 'who' to join sentences when talking about people
• Use 'which' and 'that' to join sentences when talking about objects or animals
• Use 'whose' to express possession in a relative clause
• Recognise when the relative pronoun is the subject and when it is the object of the sentence
• Join two simple sentences into one complex sentence with a relative pronoun

Lesson vocabulary

• who That is the man who came yesterday.
• which We saw the play which aroused great interest.
• that The Indonesian food that we ate last night was delicious.
• whose A boy whose sister is in my class was in the bank.
• relative pronoun Who, which, that and whose are relative pronouns.
• aroused great interest We saw the play which aroused great interest.
• secondhand Do you know anybody who wants to buy a secondhand laptop?
• robbed This is the bank which was robbed yesterday.
• escaped The car which the bank robbers escaped in was orange.
• frightened The people who were in the bank were very frightened.
• sailed They know a woman who has sailed the English Channel.
• designer dress That dress which is a designer dress is very expensive.
• grinder A coffee grinder is a machine which grinds coffee.
• calm A woman whose daughter was crying tried to calm her.
• arrested A police officer whose car was parked at the next corner stopped and arrested them.

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