Adjective Clause

Whose/ Whom/ Where

• Use with preposition
• In formal writing, a preposition in a relative clause
often appears together with the relative pronoun.
In this case the pronoun is likely to be
either whom or which; never that, and since this
is now formal usage, it would be unusual to
use who.

• Jack is the boy with whom Jenny fell in love.

• Jack built the house in which I grew up.
• Jack is the boy whom Jenny fell in love with.
• Jack is the boy who Jenny fell in love with.
• Jack is the boy that Jenny fell in love with.
• Jack is the boy Jenny fell in love with.
 Whose
• We use whose in relative clauses instead of his/her/their

We saw some people – their car had broken down

We saw some people whose car had broken down.

We use whose mostly for people:

A widow is a woman whose husband is dead. (her husband is dead)
What’s the name of the man whose car you borrowed? (you
borrowed his car)
A few days ago, I met someone whose brother I went to school with. ( I
went to school with his/her brother)

Compare who and whose

I met a man who knows you (he knows you)
I met a man whose sister knows (his sister knows you)
 Whose cont…
• We can also use whose this way:

• I was impressed by the trees whose branches seemed to touch the sky
• I bought a dress whose lining was torn.
• I owned a pair of vintage shoes whose soles are scuffed.
 Where
• You can use where in relative clause to talk about a place.

The hotel – we stayed there – wasn’t very clean

The hotel where we stayed wasn’t very clean

• I recently went back to the town where I was born

(or…. the town I was born in)
• I would like to visit a place where there is plenty of
sunshine.
 When
• Note that when can replace in/on which
(used of time)

• The year when (in which) he was born

• The day when (on which) they arrived
 Why
• Why can replace for which:

• The reason why he refused is _______

• The reason why I am phoning you _______