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Fill in the blanks with the help of the prepositions given in the box.

during over with at on after in between

1. I was standing in the dark _____________ my friend.

2. The moon was shining _____________ two stars.
3. The star shines _____________ the earth.

4. We can see the star _____________ sunset.

5. The light shines _____________ the treetops.
6. I saw the evening star _____________ 6 o’clock in the evening.

7. We can only see the stars _____________ a cloudless night.
8. We cannot see stars _____________ the day.

Relative Pronouns

Read the following sentences carefully.

I knew Kalpana Chawla who went on a space mission.
Columbia was the space shuttle which carried Kalpana into space.

In the above sentences ‘who’ and ‘which’ do the following things.

 They are used in place of nouns (‘who’ for Kalpana and ‘which’ for the space shuttle),
so they are pronouns.

 They connect two sentences.
(a) I knew Kalpana Chawla. Kalpana Chawla went on a space mission.

(b) Columbia was a space shuttle. Columbia carried Kalpana into space.
 They are related to the nouns used before them, so these words are called relative
pronouns. Who, whose, whom, which, what, that are relative pronouns.

Use of Relative Pronouns

 ‘Who’ is used for singular and plural nouns (persons only).

Examples : I met Mohan who returned my book.

My father met the players who were in the park.

 ‘ Whose’ is used for persons and sometimes things.

Examples : This is the boy whose book is with me.
Open the book whose cover is green.

 ‘ Whom’ is used for persons.
Example : Ravi is the boy whom all praise.

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