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Relative pronouns provide additional information about a noun. 'That' is a versatile relative pronoun used for people, animals, and things, making it suitable for the sentence about the sofa.

Relative pronouns introduce relative clauses. 'That' can be used for people, animals, and things, and is appropriate for referring to 'sofa' in the sentence 'I like the sofa _____ we saw in the mall yesterday.'

Task I like the sofa _____ we saw in the mall yesterday.
Answer 2
a who
b that
c whom
d whose
comment Relative pronouns who, whom, whose, which or that introduce a relative clause. Relative clauses give us more information about someone or something (the subject or object of a main clause), help us combine clauses without repeating information and give focus to something or someone: She bought a dress, which is rather pretty. By combining sentences with a relative clause, we make our speech more fluent.We use ‘who’ and ‘whom’ (more formal) for people: I told you about my aunt who lives next door.; I was invited to Isabel whom I had met at the conference. ‘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. And 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’.In the test sentence ‘I like the sofa _____ we saw in the mall yesterday.’ we need to choose a relative pronoun that is used for things, because in the relative clause we are told more about the object of the main clause – the sofa (a thing). Thus, among all the given test answers we need to choose the relative pronoun ‘that’ – ANSWER 2. By using the relative pronoun ‘that’, we avoid repeating the noun ‘sofa’ in the relative clause.
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