relative pronoun?

Question

english grammar

Answer 1

A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun phrase in a sentence.

Example: The dog is old, it walks slowly. In this sentence, the word it replaces the dog.

Relative Pronouns introduce subordinate clauses and function as adjectives.

Example: "The man who yelled at us to get off his lawn" did not even own the property!

Answer 2

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause within a larger sentence.

A relative pronoun links two clauses into a single complex clause. To this extent, it is similar in function to a subordinating conjunction. Unlike a conjunction, however, a relative pronoun stands in place of a noun.

Compare:
(1) This is a house. Jack built this house.
(2) This is the house that Jack built.

Sentence (2) consists of two clauses, a main clause (This is the house) and a relative clause (that Jack built). The word that is a relative pronoun. Within the relative clause, the relative pronoun stands for the noun phrase it references in the main clause, which is one of the arguments of the verb in the relative clause. In the example, the argument is the house, the direct object of built.

Not all languages have relative pronouns. Those that do tend to use words which originally had other functions; for example, the English which is also an interrogative word. This suggests that relative pronouns might be a fairly late development in many languages.

Relative pronouns may or may not agree with the antecedent. In English, different pronouns are sometimes used if the antecedent is a human being, as opposed to a non-human or an inanimate object (as in who/that). In other languages, the relative pronoun is an invariable word.

Answer 3

pronouns that can be used to introduced clauses in sentences
ex- that, who, which, whose, whom
ex- the woman who interviewed me was very friendly
'who' is the relative pronoun coz it shows the relation between 'me' and her