Question

I met Alice, _____ asked me to tell you about the accident. which whom 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 met Alice, _____ asked me to tell you about the accident.’ 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 Alice (a person). Therefore, among all the given test answers we need to 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 met Alice, _____asked …). 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. 1

Accepted Answer

2 who whose relative clauses

Task	I met Alice, _____ asked me to tell you about the accident.
Answer	2
a	which
b	who
c	whom
d	whose
comment	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 met Alice, _____ asked me to tell you about the accident.’ 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 Alice (a person). Therefore, among all the given test answers we need to 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 met Alice, _____asked …). 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.
topic	relative clauses
level	1

Relative Pronoun Met Clause Choose I Alice Test