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A relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces an adjective clause. The relative
pronouns in English are:
- who - used if the pronoun refers to a person or personified entity
- whose - the possessive pronoun (often confused
with "who's", which is a contraction for "who
is".
- whom - in formal
English, the objective case of who
- which - used to introduce a nonrestrictive clause if the pronoun refers to an inanimate object
- that - used to introduce a restrictive clause and
can refer only to inanimate objects in some speakers' idiolects
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