Corrigé pronoms relatifs : anglais en seconde

1. who
2. which (ou that)
3. whose : son père à lui.
4. who
5. whose : les produits de l’entreprise.
6. which (ou that, ou rien : relatif complément)
7. whose
8. which (ou that, ou rien)

1. whom : complément (the committee selected him).
2. who : sujet de applied.
3. whom : après une préposition.
4. who : sujet.
5. whom : complément (the police arrested him).
6. whom : après with.

1. I met a girl whose brother plays for Arsenal.
2. That’s the writer whose novels have been translated into thirty languages.
3. We visited a village whose inhabitants all speak Welsh.
4. The man whose car was stolen is very upset.
5. Gandhi was a leader whose ideas inspired Martin Luther King.
6. The students whose phones were confiscated must see the head teacher.

1. My grandmother, who was born in Kerala, speaks Malayalam. A : on n’a qu’une grand-mère de ce côté, la relative ajoute une précision.
2. The students who arrived late missed the test. D : seuls ceux qui sont arrivés en retard.
3. London, which is the capital of the UK, has nearly nine million inhabitants. A
4. The phone that I bought last week is already broken. D
5. Mr Khan, whose shop is on the corner, sells fresh mangoes. A
6. He failed his driving test, which surprised everyone. A : which reprend toute la proposition.

1. The house in which we lived was tiny.
2. The colleague with whom I work is from Pune.
3. That’s the topic about which I wanted to talk.
4. The friend to whom I lent my notes never returned them.
5. The chair on which she was sitting broke.

1. I have three brothers, all of whom live abroad.
2. She wrote ten novels, two of which became films.
3. We invited forty guests, most of whom came from Asia.
4. He bought several paintings, none of which was genuine. (were est aussi accepté)
5. The team has eleven players, some of whom are injured.

1. The girl whose mother is a doctor is my friend.
2. My brother, who lives in Leeds, is an engineer : pas de that dans une appositive.
3. The man to whom I spoke was very polite.
4. The book which (ou that) I’m reading is fascinating.
5. I don’t understand what he says.
6. She has two sons, both of whom are doctors.

1. That’s the woman whose son won the competition.
2. My uncle, who lives in Mumbai, is a doctor.
3. Soutenu : The person to whom I spoke was very kind. Courant : The person I spoke to was very kind.
4. He missed his train, which made him angry.
5. What I like best is music.
6. I have two cousins, both of whom are students.

1. It was taken at her grandparents’ house in Jaipur.
2. It was a wedding present from Lakshmi’s own mother.
3. “Arjun, who taught history for forty years” : it tells us that her grandfather was a history teacher for forty years.
4. “to whom I owe my love of cooking” → who I owe my love of cooking to (ou the aunt I owe my love of cooking to).
5. The three children all moved to England in the 1990s.
6. She is the girl whose braids are tied with red ribbons.

1. Oui : that est complément de bought dans une déterminative.
2. Non : who est sujet de called.
3. Oui : which est complément de watched.
4. Non : c’est une appositive (virgules).
5. Non : whose ne s’omet jamais.
6. Oui : whom est complément dans une déterminative (The teacher we admire most…).

Exemples de réponses modèles :

1. I admire my cousin Sara, whose drawings are amazing.
2. Brittany, where my grandparents live, means a lot to me.
3. The author to whom I would like to write is Arundhati Roy.
4. Our team won the regional final, which nobody expected.
5. What I like best about my town is the old market.