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Relative Pronoun Clause Choose I Jack Test Doctor

Question I saw Jack, ______ is a doctor in our hospital.
A whose
B who
C which
D whom
Answer b
Remark Relative clauses give us more information about someone or something (the subject or object of a main clause) and help us combine clauses without repeating information and give focus to something or someone: He is the man who I was talking about. We introduce a relative clause with a relative pronoun (who, whom, whose, which or that).In the test sentence ‘I saw Jack, ______ is a doctor in our hospital.’ we need to choose a relative pronoun that is used at the beginning of a relative clause to show which person we are talking about, because in the relative clause we are told more about Jack (a person). Therefore, among all the given test answers we can choose the relative pronouns ‘who’ or ‘whom’ that are used for people. But for the test sentence we need to choose a relative pronoun that is the subject of the relative clause (I saw Jack, _____ is a…). In this case, we are to choose only the relative pronoun ‘who’ (ANSWER 2), because the relative pronoun ‘whom’ is used instead of ‘who’ as the object of a verb or preposition: Have you seen those people whom we met on holiday? Here, ‘we’ is the subject.We use ‘which’ for things and animals: We don’t go to restaurants which serve meat. And ‘whose’ is used to say that something or someone is connected with or belongs to a person: She has a sister whose name I can’t remember.

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