The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Foremost among them are the subordinator that and relative pronouns like which and who, which can signal the beginning of a relative clause.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Mr. Ayres makes a feature of the fact that Who and Which are properly the co-ordinating relative pronouns, and that That is properly the restrictive relative pronoun.
From English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. by Anonymous
It is to be remembered that the singulars and the plurals of the relative pronouns are alike in form; that, who, etc., may refer to one or more than one.
From Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood
The deficiency in true conjunctions and relative pronouns is met in many American languages by a reversal of the plan of expression with us.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
Between certain relative pronouns and those particular conjunctions that govern a subjunctive mood there is also a point of connection.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
