Complete the following sentences using appropriate relative pronouns.
1A man ............... is dead needs no wealth or fame.
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Use "who" or "that" for a person who is the subject of a defining relative clause.
2I have been to the estate ............... belongs to Kabir.
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Use "which" or "that" for a thing that is the subject of a defining relative clause.
3He was the most successful writer ............... lived at that time.
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Wrong!
Use "who" or "that" for a person who is the subject of the defining relative clause.
4The smell ............... comes from that room is very bad.
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Wrong!
Use "which" or "that" for a thing that is the subject of a defining relative clause.
5This is the necklace ............... belongs to my grandmother.
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Use "which" or "that" for a thing that is the subject of a defining relative clause.
6I saw a man ............... was blind.
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Use "who" or "that" for a person who is the subject of a defining relative clause.
7She married an engineer ............... she met on a bus.
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Use "who" or "whom" for a person who is the object of the verb in a defining relative clause.
8These are the keys ............... you were looking for.
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Use "that" or "which" for things that are the object of a defining relative clause.
9The most important thing ............... Wycliffe and his friends accomplished was that they got the Bible translated into English.
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Use "that" after "the most important thing" in this defining relative clause.
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- A man who / that is dead needs no wealth or fame.
- I have been to the estate which / that belongs to Kabir.
- He was the most successful writer who / that lived at that time.
- The smell which / that comes from that room is very bad.
- This is the necklace which / that belongs to my grandmother.
- I saw a man who / that was blind.
- She married an engineer who / whom she met on a bus.
- These are the keys that / which you were looking for.
- The most important thing that Wycliffe and his friends accomplished was that they got the Bible translated into English.