RELATIVE PRONOMINER (henførende stedord)
1. Who, whom, whose viser tilbage til
personer:
I don’t know the girl who asked me to dance.
I know very few of those who were present.
2.
Whom bruges i formelt sprog som objekt i den relative sætning og
skal altid
bruges som styrelse
i et præpositionsled, når præpositionen står umiddelbart foran:
The actor whom we had seen in the theatre was at the party.
The man with whom I exchanged a few words is an actor.
3. Whose er genitivsformen af who og kan vise tilbage til
både personer og ikke-personer:
My neighbour, whose dog
I’m looking after, is on holiday
They were playing a game whose rules I couldn’t understand
NB. Undgå forveksling mellem whose og who’s (= who is eller who has).
4. Which viser tilbage til ikke-personer og kan bruges
både i bestemmende og ikke-bestemmende sætninger:
Please return the book which I lent you last month
The car, which was badly damaged, belonged to my father
Which kan også vise tilbage til hele den foregående sætning; i denne anvendelse er der altid komma foran which:
The team lost all its matches, which was a terrible disappointment
5. That viser tilbage til
personer såvel som ikke-personer, men bruges
kun i bestemmende sætninger:
The girl that we met in the park is in my class
I don’t much like the music that is being played
I hate poems that don’t rhyme