In defining relative clauses the pronouns who, which, why, and when can be replaced with that - She’s an old friend who/that is like a sister to me, In a relative clause, the pronoun can refer to the subject or object of the clause - He’s the guy that your father knew at university --- She's the one that is a good friend of my parents., When the relative pronoun refers to the object of the relative clause, it can be omitted. - She’s my old piano teacher (that) my father knew from university, When the verb is followed by a preposition, we usually put the preposition at the end of the relative clause. - He is the man I was talking to., In formal situations, we can put the preposition before the relative pronoun. If the relative pronoun refers to a person, however, we must use whom, not who  - The kitchen in which we ate was dark and cold, fixed prepositional phrases in non-defining relative clauses - The company ran out of eggs, at which point I quit my job,

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