Complete the sentence with the appropriate relative pronoun:
The researcher _____ paper won the national award has been promoted to senior lecturer.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. whose
- Step 1: Analyze the syntactic role of the pronoun in the relative clause: it modifies the noun paper, indicating that the paper belongs to the researcher (possession).
- Step 2: Select the correct form: the possessive relative pronoun is whose. In contrast, who's is a contraction for who is or who has, whom is an objective pronoun, and which refers to non-human antecedents.
Answer
whose.
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