Uses Of Pronoun

 USES OF PRONOUN

 Choosing correctly between which and that and between who and whom leads to what are probably the most frequently asked questions about English grammar. Which relative pronoun to use is determined by what the antecedent is and whether the dependent clause is essential information in relation to the independent clause.

Who , Which , That . The correct use of these relative pronouns requires a knowledge of these distinctions : That is the man whom you gave the money to .

Use of who:

 Who is generally used for human beings but sometimes for pet animals also .

• We had to take Tommie , who had been barking all night , inside .

 Whom is also used for human beings and sometimes for pet animals .

 Use of which:

 Which is used for animals and for inanimate things .

• The time which is lost is lost for ever . 

• The dog which I bought yesterday is an Alsatian . 

• Generally , we use which to introduce clauses that are parenthetical in nature ( i.e. , that can be removed from the sentence without changing the essential meaning of the sentence ) . For that reason ; which clause is often set off with a comma or a pair of commas .

Use of that :

Examples :

( a ) That can be used for persons and things both . It is often used instead of who , whom , which but never in place of whose . 

• He is the man that ( = who ) has won the race . 

• The thief that ( = whom ) the police were looking for has been caught .

• The pen that ( = which ) I bought yesterday is not working properly ( b ) That is used after the adjectives in the superlative degree . 

• Ahmed is the finest man that I have ever met .

• This is the least that you can do for him. 

(c) That is used after the words all, same, none, only.

• All that glitters is not gold.

• He is not the same friend that he was. 

• There is none among us that can compare with him.

• There is nothing that Faisal will not do for his friend. 

• Man is the only animal that can think.

 (d) That clauses are usually deemed indispensable for the meaning of a sentence and are not set off with commas.