{"id":47,"date":"2017-07-20T16:27:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T16:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/chapter\/relative-pronouns\/"},"modified":"2017-07-20T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T16:27:57","slug":"relative-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/chapter\/relative-pronouns\/","title":{"raw":"Relative Pronouns","rendered":"Relative Pronouns"},"content":{"raw":"<p>There are five relative pronouns in English:\u00a0<em>who<\/em>,\u00a0<em>whom<\/em>,\u00a0<em>whose<\/em>, <em>that<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>which. <\/em>These pronouns are used to connect different clauses together. For example:\n<\/p><ul><li>Belen, <strong>who<\/strong> had starred in six plays before she turned seventeen, knew that she wanted to act on Broadway someday.\n<ul><li>The word\u00a0<em>who<\/em> connects the phrase \"had starred in six plays before she turned seventeen\" to the rest of the sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n \t<li>My daughter wants to adopt the\u00a0dog <strong>that<\/strong>\u00a0doesn't have\u00a0a tail.\n<ul><li>The word\u00a0<em>that<\/em> connects the phrase \"doesn't have a tail\" to the rest of the sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThese pronouns behave differently from the other categories we've seen. However, they are pronouns, and it's important to learn how they work.\n\nTwo\u00a0of the biggest confusions with these pronouns are\u00a0<em>that<\/em> vs.\u00a0<em>which<\/em> and\u00a0<em>who<\/em> vs.\u00a0<em>whom<\/em>. The two following videos help with these:\n<h2>That vs. Which<\/h2>\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/6Js8tBCfbWk\n<h2>Who vs. Whom<\/h2>\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/bPqMLKXoEac\n<div class=\"textbox key-takeaways\">\n<h3>Practice<\/h3>\nDoes the following paragraph\u00a0use\u00a0relative pronouns correctly? Explain why or why not for each relative pronoun.\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(1) Katerina, whom had taken biology\u00a0once\u00a0already, was still struggling to keep\u00a0the steps of cellular respiration straight. (2) She knew the process took place in animals, which take in oxygen and put out carbon dioxide. (3) She also knew that plants underwent the process of photosynthesis. (4) However, the individual steps of the process seemed beyond her understanding.<\/p>\n[practice-area rows=\"4\"][\/practice-area]\n[reveal-answer q=\"35641\"]Show Answer[\/reveal-answer]\n[hidden-answer a=\"35641\"]There are three relative pronouns in this passage.\n\nSentence 1 has the relative pronoun <em>whom<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Whom<\/em> is incorrect in this instance; the object case is not needed here. The sentence should\u00a0start with \"Katerina, who had taken biology once already. . . .\"\n\nIn sentence 2, the relative pronoun<em>\u00a0which\u00a0<\/em>is used correctly. <em>Which<\/em> is appropriate to use with the noun <em>animals<\/em>, and\u00a0the clause is set off with commas.\n\n<em>That<\/em> is used correctly in sentence 3. It connects\u00a0<em>knew<\/em> with what she knew.\n\n[\/hidden-answer]\n\n<\/div>","rendered":"<p>There are five relative pronouns in English:\u00a0<em>who<\/em>,\u00a0<em>whom<\/em>,\u00a0<em>whose<\/em>, <em>that<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>which. <\/em>These pronouns are used to connect different clauses together. For example:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Belen, <strong>who<\/strong> had starred in six plays before she turned seventeen, knew that she wanted to act on Broadway someday.\n<ul>\n<li>The word\u00a0<em>who<\/em> connects the phrase &#8220;had starred in six plays before she turned seventeen&#8221; to the rest of the sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>My daughter wants to adopt the\u00a0dog <strong>that<\/strong>\u00a0doesn&#8217;t have\u00a0a tail.\n<ul>\n<li>The word\u00a0<em>that<\/em> connects the phrase &#8220;doesn&#8217;t have a tail&#8221; to the rest of the sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These pronouns behave differently from the other categories we&#8217;ve seen. However, they are pronouns, and it&#8217;s important to learn how they work.<\/p>\n<p>Two\u00a0of the biggest confusions with these pronouns are\u00a0<em>that<\/em> vs.\u00a0<em>which<\/em> and\u00a0<em>who<\/em> vs.\u00a0<em>whom<\/em>. The two following videos help with these:<\/p>\n<h2>That vs. Which<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"That versus which | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Js8tBCfbWk?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Who vs. Whom<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-2\" title=\"Who versus whom | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bPqMLKXoEac?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox key-takeaways\">\n<h3>Practice<\/h3>\n<p>Does the following paragraph\u00a0use\u00a0relative pronouns correctly? Explain why or why not for each relative pronoun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(1) Katerina, whom had taken biology\u00a0once\u00a0already, was still struggling to keep\u00a0the steps of cellular respiration straight. (2) She knew the process took place in animals, which take in oxygen and put out carbon dioxide. (3) She also knew that plants underwent the process of photosynthesis. (4) However, the individual steps of the process seemed beyond her understanding.<\/p>\n<p><textarea aria-label=\"Your Answer\" rows=\"4\"><\/textarea><\/p>\n<div class=\"qa-wrapper\" style=\"display: block\"><span class=\"show-answer collapsed\" style=\"cursor: pointer\" data-target=\"q35641\">Show Answer<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"q35641\" class=\"hidden-answer\" style=\"display: none\">There are three relative pronouns in this passage.<\/p>\n<p>Sentence 1 has the relative pronoun <em>whom<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Whom<\/em> is incorrect in this instance; the object case is not needed here. The sentence should\u00a0start with &#8220;Katerina, who had taken biology once already. . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In sentence 2, the relative pronoun<em>\u00a0which\u00a0<\/em>is used correctly. <em>Which<\/em> is appropriate to use with the noun <em>animals<\/em>, and\u00a0the clause is set off with commas.<\/p>\n<p><em>That<\/em> is used correctly in sentence 3. It connects\u00a0<em>knew<\/em> with what she knew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-47\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Relative Pronouns. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>That versus which. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: David Rheinstrom. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Khan Academy. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/humanities\/grammar\/partsofspeech\/the-pronoun\/v\/that-versus-which-the-parts-of-speech-grammar\">https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/humanities\/grammar\/partsofspeech\/the-pronoun\/v\/that-versus-which-the-parts-of-speech-grammar<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><li>Who versus whom. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: David Rheinstrom. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Khan Academy. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/humanities\/grammar\/partsofspeech\/the-pronoun\/v\/who-versus-whom-the-parts-of-speech-grammar\">https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/humanities\/grammar\/partsofspeech\/the-pronoun\/v\/who-versus-whom-the-parts-of-speech-grammar<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":19,"menu_order":12,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Relative Pronouns\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"That versus which\",\"author\":\"David Rheinstrom\",\"organization\":\"Khan Academy\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/humanities\/grammar\/partsofspeech\/the-pronoun\/v\/that-versus-which-the-parts-of-speech-grammar\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Who versus whom\",\"author\":\"David Rheinstrom\",\"organization\":\"Khan Academy\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/humanities\/grammar\/partsofspeech\/the-pronoun\/v\/who-versus-whom-the-parts-of-speech-grammar\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-47","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":22,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/47\/revisions"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/22"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/47\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}