Knock, knock. Who's there? To. To who? No! To whom. Knowing when to use who versus whom is just one of the many topics covered on a handout about relative pronouns. Writers discover how to incorporate words such as whose, that, which, who, and whom in their writing with appropriate subject-verb agreement, as well as how to reduce the overuse of subject pronouns in sentences. 

Concepts

relative clauses, relative pronouns, dependent clauses

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have a competition where teams try to create the longest sentence possible (that still makes sense) by adding relative clauses
• Play a guessing game where learners describe a person or place using relative clauses, such as "This is a person who worked as a mail carrier."

Classroom Considerations

• Requires an understanding of the basic parts of speech (nouns and pronouns), as well as subject-verb agreement
• Part of a larger series of handouts covering writing skills.
  

Pros

• Uses red text to highlight relative pronouns as they appear in examples

Cons

• Purely informational with no opportunities to practice using relative clauses

Common Core

L.4.1.a L.9-10.1.b L.11-12.3.a