Fill in the blanks with appropriate pronouns.
1. This is Samuel ……………………. works with me.
The relative pronoun who has one form when it is used as the subject and another form when it is used as the object.
2. This is Samuel with ……………………… I am working at the moment.
The relative pronoun who becomes whom when it is used as the object.
3. John and …………………….. are going skiing this weekend.
When a pronoun acts as the subject of the verb it should be in its subject form.
4. Between you and ……………………, I think there is trouble in their paradise.
Here the pronoun me is the object of the preposition between.
5. With ……………………….. did you go?
We must use whom after a preposition.
6. There is the guy ……………………….. we met at the club yesterday.
Whom is unusual in identifying relative clauses.
7. This is James, ……………………….. we met at the club yesterday.
Whom is common in non-identifying relative clauses.
8. I have a number of English friends and most of …………………….. live in London.
We do not use a relative pronoun in a coordinate clause.
9. She has a number of American relatives, most of ………………….. live in Chicago.
In a relative clause we use who or whom to refer back to a noun in the main clause.
10. This is the doctor …………………….. lives next door.
The relative pronoun acts as the subject or object of the verb in the relative clause. Hence we do not need another noun.
11. ………………………… leaves last should put the lights out.
Whoever means the same as ‘the person who’.
12. It is I ………………………. need your help.
If we use a subject pronoun after ‘it is’, the subject of the relative clause should be who.
Answers
1. This is Samuel who works with me.
2. This is Samuel with whom I am working at the moment.
3. John and I are going skiing this weekend.
4. Between you and me, I think there is trouble in their paradise.
5. With whom did you go?
6. There is the guy who / that we met at the club yesterday.
7. This is James, whom we met at the club yesterday.
8. I have a number of English friends and most of them live in London.
9. She has a number of American relatives, most of whom live in Chicago.
10. This is the doctor who lives next door.
11. Whoever leaves last should put the lights out.
12. It is I who need your help.
