relative pronouns
- plural of relative pronoun.
Example Sentences
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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
Compound Relative Pronouns.+—The compound relative pronouns are formed by adding ever and soever to the relative pronouns who, which, and what.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
Dependent clauses are joined to the sentence by relative adverbs; such as, where, when, etc., or by relative pronouns; as, who, what, etc.
From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas
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 Wood, Thomas
But those who have incautiously upset their class from the frying-pan of qui, quae, quod, into the fire of English demonstrative and relative pronouns get a foretaste of the fire that dieth not.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John
