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Example sentences for "relative pronoun"

  • Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun.

  • That, as a relative pronoun, cannot be governed by a preposition preceding it, but may be governed by one at the end of the sentence which it commences.

  • Defn: Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.

  • This is often true when it is used with an interrogative or relative pronoun.

  • In these sentences as is really used as a relative pronoun, connecting these adjective clauses to the words which they modify.

  • As is a very convenient word and may be used in several different ways; sometimes as an adverb, sometimes as a conjunction; and it may also be used as a relative pronoun after such, same and many.

  • The indicative is ordinarily used in sentences introduced by a relative pronoun, or by a causal conjunctive word other than #cum#.

  • For a relative pronoun sentence, see 1354.

  • Since a relative pronoun has the number and person of its antecedent, a verb whose subject is a relative pronoun agrees in person and number with the antecedent of the relative.

  • What, as a relative pronoun, is equivalent to "that which.

  • A relative pronoun is a pronoun that represents an antecedent word or phrase, and connects different clauses of a sentence; as, "No people can be great, who have ceased to be virtuous.

  • But the word that is not always a relative pronoun.

  • Here the word witness might be omitted, and which would become a relative pronoun.

  • Videō oppidum ubi Galba habitat», I see the town where Galba lives «ubi» is called a relative conjunction because it is equivalent to a relative pronoun.

  • A pronoun that connects an adjective clause with a substantive is called a relative pronoun, and the substantive for which the relative pronoun stands is called its antecedent.

  • As in other Tibeto-Burman languages, there is no relative pronoun; its place is taken by descriptive adjectival phrases.

  • The absence of a relative pronoun, and the substitute for it, are noticed.

  • But, as a relative pronoun; with a negative; with a dependent clause; to introduce two succeeding statements.

  • Relative clauses referring to the same thing require the same relative pronoun to introduce them; as, The book THAT we found and the book THAT he lost are the same.

  • When the subject is a relative pronoun, the number and the person of the antecedent determine the number and the person of the verb.

  • Footnote: As, in such sentences as this: Give such things as you can spare, may be treated as a relative pronoun.

  • A Relative Pronoun is one that relates to some preceding word or words and connects clauses+.

  • Several connected relative clauses relating to the same antecedent require the same relative pronoun.

  • As may be used as a relative pronoun when such stands in the main clause.

  • A relative pronoun in the objective case is often omitted.

  • When the word ever or soever is annexed to a relative pronoun, the combination is called a compound pronoun; as, whoever or whosoever, whichever or whichsoever, whatever or whatsoever.

  • After a relative pronoun, a very common occurrence; thus,-- The most dismal Christmas fun which these eyes ever looked on.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "relative pronoun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    amicable arrangement; change horses; didna think; exceedingly interesting; followed closely; full armor; governing coalition; important factor; leap year; much right; popular language; quite independent; relative abundance; relative clause; relative humidity; relative motion; relative position; relative pronouns; relative term; relatively high; relatively small; relatively speaking; returne againe; temporary command; that room; when called