Definition of Relative pronoun

1. Noun. A pronoun (as 'that' or 'which' or 'who') that introduces a relative clause referring to some antecedent.

Generic synonyms: Pronoun

Definition of Relative pronoun

1. Noun. (grammar) A pronoun that introduces a relative clause and refers to an antecedent. Some words that can be used as interrogative pronouns can alternatively be used as relative pronouns: ''what'', ''which'', ''who'', ''whom'', and ''whose''. The other relative pronouns are ''whoever'', ''whosoever'', ''whomever'', ''whatever'', and ''that''. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Relative Pronoun

relative densities
relative density
relative frequency
relative future tense
relative humidity
relative immunity
relative incidence
relative incompetence
relative key
relative keys
relative leukocytosis
relative majority
relative polycythemia
relative price
relative pronoun
relative pronouns
relative quantity
relative refractory period
relative risk
relative scotoma
relative sensitivity
relative specificity
relative superlative
relative superlatives
relative topology
relative value scales
relative viscosity
relatively
relatively prime

Literary usage of Relative pronoun

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Thomas Jefferson Conant, Emil Roediger, Benjamin Davies (1846)
"relative pronoun AND RELATIVE CLAUSES. 1. The pronoun "HOS often serves merely as a sign of relation, ie to give a relative signification to substantives, ..."

2. Gesenius Hebrew grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Emil Roediger (1851)
"relative pronoun AND RELATIVE CLAUSES 1. The pronoun "lOS often serves merely as a sign of relation, ie to give a relative signification to substantives, ..."

3. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Benjamin Davies (1853)
"relative pronoun AND RELATIVE CLAUSES. 1. ... In the same manner the Hebrew forms the oblique cases of the relative pronoun, who, which, viz. ..."

4. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius (1859)
"relative pronoun AND RELATIVE CLAUSES. 1. The pronoun "ГОК often serves merely as a sign of relation, ie to give a relative signification to substantives, ..."

5. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Thomas Jefferson Conant, Emil Roediger (1856)
"In the same manner the Hebrew forms the oblique cases of the relative pronoun, -who, which, viz. Dative, ft to him, ft IBS to whom; DH5, ..."

6. English Grammar Simplified: Its Study Made Easy by James Champlin Fernald (1916)
"compared, 134 ; see ADVERBS AS INDEPENDENT ELEMENTS, 135. viert, second person singular, past direct and indirect questions, 42; as relative pronoun, 43; ..."

7. English Grammar Simplified: Its Study Made Easy by James Champlin Fernald (1916)
"as relative pronoun, 43; with antecedent unexpressed, 53 (6) ; declension of, 43; refers only to persons, 44 ; choice of who or whom, ..."

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