Question

The man, ______ car it is, should pay a parking fine. that which We use ‘that’ for people, animals and things: The woman that is dancing over there is my boss.; I am reading the book that is on the arm-chair.; A kiwi is a bird that lives in New Zealand. ‘That’ is more informal than ‘who’, ‘whom’ or ‘which’.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?We use ‘which’ for things and animals: We don’t go to restaurants which serve meat.We use ‘whose’ to introduce a relative clause indicating possession by people, animals and things: She has a sister whose name I can’t remember.; This is the book whose title I can’t remember.‘Whose’ as the relative possessive determiner is used to indicate that the following noun belongs to or is associated with the person or thing mentioned in the previous clause.For the test sentence ‘The man, ______ car it is, should pay a parking fine.’ we need to choose the relative pronoun that will indicate that the following noun 'car' belongs to or is associated with the person mentioned in the previous clause – the noun ‘man’: of whom that car is. Therefore, we choose the relative pronoun ‘whose’, because it introduces the relative clause (…,______ car it is,…) indicating possession by the man: that car that is mentioned in the relative clause belongs to the man.Thus, we are to choose ANSWER 4 (whose). 1

Accepted Answer

4 whom whose relative clauses

Task	The man, ______ car it is, should pay a parking fine.
Answer	4
a	that
b	whom
c	which
d	whose
comment	We use ‘that’ for people, animals and things: The woman that is dancing over there is my boss.; I am reading the book that is on the arm-chair.; A kiwi is a bird that lives in New Zealand. ‘That’ is more informal than ‘who’, ‘whom’ or ‘which’.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?We use ‘which’ for things and animals: We don’t go to restaurants which serve meat.We use ‘whose’ to introduce a relative clause indicating possession by people, animals and things: She has a sister whose name I can’t remember.; This is the book whose title I can’t remember.‘Whose’ as the relative possessive determiner is used to indicate that the following noun belongs to or is associated with the person or thing mentioned in the previous clause.For the test sentence ‘The man, ______ car it is, should pay a parking fine.’ we need to choose the relative pronoun that will indicate that the following noun 'car' belongs to or is associated with the person mentioned in the previous clause – the noun ‘man’: of whom that car is. Therefore, we choose the relative pronoun ‘whose’, because it introduces the relative clause (…,______ car it is,…) indicating possession by the man: that car that is mentioned in the relative clause belongs to the man.Thus, we are to choose ANSWER 4 (whose).
topic	relative clauses
level	1

Relative Car Clause I Pronoun Noun Belongs Mentioned