School Life  ● Grammar and usage

4. in point 4, the antecedents in the three sentences are all the birthday presents, something and the girl. all the presents and something refer to things, and the girl refers to a person. the relative pronouns that/which and that/who/whom are all used as the objects in the attributive clause and can be left out.
5. read the following sentences:
she has a brother. i can’t remember his name.
what does the word his refer to? (the brother’s.)
she has a brother whose name i can’t remember.
point out the antecedent here and make sure what the function of whose is in the attributive clause.
in point 5, whose in the first sentence refers to the girl’s and the club’s in the second sentence. when the antecedent functions as an attributive in the clause, whose is used and it should be used before a noun.
6. complete the conversation on page 11 individually. then read it in groups of three to check your answers.
answers
(1) that/ which    (2) whose       (3)who/ that     (4) who/ whom/ that
(5) that/ which    (6) that/ which    (7) who/ that (8) that/ which (9) who/ that
7. deal with part c2 on page 88 in workbook to get more practice in how to form an attributive clause in a sentence.
answers
part c2 (page 88)
 1. this is the school where/in which i studied five years ago.
 2. in this school there are about 30 foreign students who/that have come to study the chinese language.
 3. these students whose parents have come to china for business like the school very much.
 4. the teaching building that/which was put up last year looks nice.
 5. the man who is standing in front of the school library is the headmaster.
 6. next to him stands a girl whose name is tina.
 7. tina is a top student (who/whom) the school gave a medal to for winning the writing competition.
 8. tina likes reading the novels which/that are written by charles dickens.
 9. tina is the host of the school’s radio club that/which started was 2 years ago.
10. students like the school news (that/which) the radio club broadcasts.
 
resources
1. students may want to know more clearly about the usage of relative pronouns. a table can be used to explain as below:
relative pronouns used in attributive clauses
antecedent
subject
object
possessive
note
 
persons
who/that
whom/who/that
whose
a relative pronoun can be omitted when it is used as the object in an attributive clause
 
things
which/that