Relative and Interrogative Pronouns - 6th Grade Grammar
Relative Pronouns
A relative pronoun links a clause to another noun or pronoun.
The girls performed a song that they had chosen.
The dog ran into a store that had its door open.
The girls performed a song that they had chosen.
The dog ran into a store that had its door open.
The man who owns the store chased the dog out.
What was the name of the boy whose dog was missing?
What was the name of the boy whose dog was missing?
Interrogative Pronouns
An interrogative pronoun asks a question when a noun in the sentence is not known.
What happened on the bus yesterday?
What startled the dog in the first place?
Which of these streets did it run down?
What was the name of the boy whose dog was missing?
Note
Who, whom, whose, and which can be used as either relative or interrogative pronouns.
That is a relative pronoun, and what is an interrogative pronoun.
Whose is only used to show possession.