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Relative Clauses / Whom - Whose

There are two tipes of Relative Clauses such as Defining and Non-defining relative clauses:

Defining Relative Clauses, it gives additional information in order to understand what or who we're mean and it dosen't need to use comma so let's watch some examples.

- The man who is wearing a hat is my uncle. What man? well who's wearing a hat

- The book that I borrowed was amazing. What book? that I borrowed

On the other hand there's Non-defining Relative Clauses, it gives extra information but not essential and it does need to use comma so let's check some examples as well.

- My brother, who lives in Spain, is coming to visit. Spain's an extra information

- Paris, which is the capital of France, is beatiful. France's an extra information too

You can avoid that when you have an subject or object and another subject

We can use many Relative Pronouns, Who, Whom, Whose, Which, That, Where, When.

You might wondering how to use these Relative Pronouns so we're gonna see WHOM and Whose.

Whom, it uses to mean people, when they're the subject of a verb or a preposition (NOT the subject), for example

- The man whom I saw was very tall ''The man'' is the object

Whose, we need to use Whose when it means a possetion and the meaning in Spanish is: Cuyo/a/os/as.

- Do you know the man whose car was stolen? Try to ask yourself as a question and if the answer is HIM/HER/THEM you'll use Whose

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