1.1.7.4 Relative Pronouns, in L'Huillier, Advanced French Grammar

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Monique L'Huillier

Advanced French Grammar

1. Framework

1.1 Parts of Speech

1.1.7 Pronouns

1.1.7.4 Relative Pronouns

(i) Simple and Compound Relative Pronouns

 

There are simple and compound forms of the relative pronouns:

 

1) Simple Relative Pronouns: qui, qui, quoi, dont, où.

2) Compound Relative Pronouns: lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles. 

These form the basis for further compounding with other prepositions, for example, à laquelle, sur lequel, etc.

 

(ii) Linking Clauses

 

Relative pronouns can link two clauses – a main clause and a subordinate one.

Ex,

J’ai retrouvé le livre qui me manquait.

qui represents livre, which is its antecedent; livre is the object of ai retrouvé in the main clause, and the subject of manquait in the subordinate clause.

L'Huillier, Monique. Advanced French Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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