Whose and Where in Relative Clauses

How do you say WHOSE something belongs to, or WHERE something happened, in one smooth sentence?

Notice

  • That is the house where I grew up.
  • This is the restaurant where we met.
  • I met a man whose dog looked just like mine.

Rule

Where replaces a place (in/at which). Whose shows possession, connecting a person or thing to something that belongs to them. Both work in defining or non-defining clauses.

Practice

  1. This is the café ___ we first met.
    Answer: where
  2. That’s the man ___ car was stolen.
    Answer: whose
  3. I visited the town ___ I was born.
    Answer: where
  4. She’s the artist ___ paintings are in the museum.
    Answer: whose
  5. This is the hotel ___ we stayed last summer.
    Answer: where

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CEFR: Writing — add precise detail about people and places in a description.

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