Ch 19 路 Lesson 5

Relative pronouns advanced

Prescribed by the AQA specification.

The short version

agrees with the thing owned

.

The author whose novels I read is Spanish.
Why?

means 'whose' and behaves like a possessive adjective, so it matches the thing possessed and ignores the owner entirely. In , is feminine plural because is, even though the author is a man. Getting that agreement right is the classic .

A whole idea needs , not

, .

He arrived late, which annoyed me.
Why?

When you are commenting on an entire situation rather than a named noun, will not carry it. , is wrong: the genderless antecedent needs the neuter or . The same applies when there is no noun in sight at all, as in .

After a preposition, takes an article

.

The reason I came is simple.
Why?

Spanish never leaves a preposition at the end of a clause. It goes in front, and then normally takes an article that agrees with the noun: , , . does the same job in more formal Spanish.

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