Whose Relative Clauses?

WHOSE

When two sentences talk about the same person, and the second sentence has a possessive form of a word in the first sentence, we can use whose to connect the two sentences.

I know the boy.
The boy's mother works at the YMCA.
I know the boy whose mother works at the YMCA.

I know the boy.
My cousin works with the boy's mother.
I know the boy whose mother my cousin works with.

The painter is Monet.
I really like the painter's work the most.
I painter's whose work I like the most is Monet.

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8:00 more practice with Relative Clauses

1) The car is old. I like my car.
The car that I like is old.
The car which I like is old.
The car I like is old.

2) Poland won the World Cup. The World Cup was in 1940.
Poland won the World Cup which was in 1940.
Poland won the World Cup that was in 1940.

3) Students studied relative clauses. Relative clauses are confusing.
Students studied relative clauses which are confusing.
Students studied relative clauses that are confusing.

4) Students studied relative clauses. The students were confused.
Students who were confused studied relative clauses.
Students that were confused studied relative clauses.

5) Banks went bankrupt. Banks made bad loans.
Banks that made bad loans went bankrupt.
Banks which made bad loans went bankrupt.