'Whose' + noun in
relative clauses
1)
We use whose in place of possessive adjectives (my,
your, his, etc.) to refer to people.
Whose does not change
when it refers to masculine, feminine, singular or plural:
He's the man/She's the
woman whose car was stolen. (Not *whose his car was stolen*)
They're the people
whose cars were stolen. (Not 'whose their cars were stolen*)
2)
We sometimes use whose in place of its to
refer to things and animals:
That's the house
whose windows were broken. (= the windows of which)
3)
We can also use whose with prepositions:
He's the man from
whose house the pictures were stolen. (formal)
He's the man whose
house the pictures were stolen from.
Write: Join these
sentences using whose.
1)
He is the customer. I lost his address.
... He is the
customer whose address I lost…
2)
She is the novelist. Her book won first prize.
......................................................................................
3)
They are the children. Their team won the match.
.............................................................................
. .
4)
You are the expert. We want your advice.
..........................................................................................
5)
I'm the witness. My evidence led to his arrest.
..........................................................................................
6)
She's the woman. The film was made in her house.
..........................................................................
Defining and non-defining clauses
1) When we write
relative clauses with who, which or whose, we have to decide
whether to use commas 'round the clauses' or not.
2) In sentences like:
I've never met anyone
who can type as fast as you can.
The magazine which
arrived this morning is five days late.
The relative clauses tell us which
person or thing we mean. They give us essential information which we cannot
omit. We call them defining clauses because they 'define' the person or
thing they refer to. We never use commas in such sentences.
We never use commas with that in
relative clauses:
I've just had a
phone call from the people (that) we met during our holidays.
The wallet (that)
you lost has been found.
3) In sentences
like:
Our new secretary,
who can type faster than anyone I have ever met, has completely reorganized
our office.
Time Magazine, which
is available in every country in the world, is published every week.
The relative clauses add 'extra
information'. If we take them out of the sentences, we won't seriously change
the meaning. We call these non-defining clauses (they do not 'define')
and we use commas before and after them.
4) Sometimes we have
to decide when the information is 'essential' or 'extra' and we may or may not
use commas. We must decide this for ourselves:
He
asked lots of questions (,) which were none of his business (,) and annoyed
everybody.
Write: Add commas to the
following sentences where necessary.
1)
My husband, who is
on a business trip to Rome all this week, sent me this postcard.
2)
The person who told you that story didn't know what he
was talking about.
3)
Will the driver whose vehicle has the registration
number PXB2140 please move it?
4)
The author Barbara Branwell whose latest novel has
already sold over a million copies will be giving a lecture at the public
library tomorrow.
5)
The person you got that information from is my cousin.
6)
The play Cowards which opens at the Globe soon
had a successful season on Broadway.
7)
Cowards is the name of the play which ran for over
two years.
8)
The thing that pleases me most is that I'll never have
to ask for your help again.
9)
The manager whom I complained to about the service has
refunded part of our bill.
10) Sally West whose
work for the deaf made her famous has been killed in a car accident.
11) We found it
impossible to cross the river that had flooded after the storm.
12)
I have just learned that the engine part which I need
is no longer made.
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