The article I am about to review is published by the department of English education of Kongju

National University. It is titled “An Analysis of English Relative Pronouns - Focused on ‘That’”.
The article concerns the features of relative pronounce and the word “that”. The author finds it
necessary to determine the status of “that”, since its characteristics do not seem to satisfy any
particular status.
First of all, the article discusses the historical review of relative pronoun. Apparently, in Old
English there were relative pronounce as well, but they were different from the modern ones.
The article then goes on telling, that the major function of a relative pronoun is to connect two
sentences. So, there are four relative pronouns in English: „who, whom, whose and which‟.
Then the article describes the difference between restrictive and non-restrictive relative
clauses. According to it, restrictive clauses are quite linked to the antecedent in thought so that
they follow immediately without a pause, and hence are not usually set off by a comma.
Further, the author switches to debates on ‘that’ status. There are some cases when it can have
a function of a relative pronoun, while there are some when it cannot. It can also be a
subordinate conjunction. Finally, the author explains that the word ‘that’ can sometimes be
omitted when acting as a conjunction.
I personally found this article very informative, since it managed to convey a lot of information
briefly. However, I must note that it is not very-well written. It has some misspellings, which are
hard not to notice. Overall, I can recommend it to anyone interested in the topic.