relative pronouns

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of relative pronoun.
  relative pronoun

  noun

  one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.

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relative pronouns

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

There are, also, compound relative pronouns, which will be mentioned later.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood

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

Do not use as for the relative pronouns who and that.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood

This the relative pronouns do, through the logical elements common to them and to the interrogatives: these latter essentially suggesting the idea of doubt.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

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