Relative pronouns

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[Voiceover] Grammarians, we're gonna talk about relative pronouns today and what relative pronouns do is they link clauses together, specifically, independent and dependent clauses, and if you don't know what independent and dependent clauses are, that's okay, just, suffice it to say, that these pronouns allow you to staple phrases together.발음듣기

For example, in the sentence, the man who sold the world is coming by on Tuesday, the pronoun who, is the relative pronoun there, it's linking the independent clause, the man is coming by on Tuesday to the dependent clause, sold the world.발음듣기

The relative pronouns of English are who, whom, whose, that and which, and we use them all for different things.발음듣기

So, we can use who, whom, whose and that to refer to people, and we can use whose, that and which to refer to things.발음듣기

Let me show you.발음듣기

You could say, the salad that I bought was wilted.발음듣기

But at the same time, I can also use that in this sentence.발음듣기

The man that I saw smiled.발음듣기

See, I'm using that to refer to him.발음듣기

I could also use who, but the word which, however, does not play very nicely with people.발음듣기

In the sentence, the witch who cast the spell is kind, we could use either the witch who cast the spell or the witch that cast the spell because both that and who work with people.발음듣기

But which, strangely, does not.발음듣기

So we couldn't say, for example, the witch which owns a cat is cruel.발음듣기

That's just now how the language shook out, which is not a relative pronoun that applies to people.발음듣기

These are the relative pronouns of English, this is broadly how they work and I'm gonna get into more specifics in following videos.발음듣기

You can learn anything, David out.발음듣기

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