Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word:
They met some people ________ sons were all football players.
A)Who
B)Who’s
C)Whom
D)Whose

Answer 1

Hint: We use a relative pronoun to connect a phrase to a pronoun. In this case, we are connecting ‘people’ with ‘sons’.

Complete step-by-step answer:

 We often use relative pronouns to disclose more information about relative clauses. Relative clauses provide us more details about people and things.
Example- Mother Teresa is the woman who served the poor. Here, we have used the relative pronoun ‘who’ to give more information about a person.
In the above given question, we know that the ‘people’ are the parents of the ‘sons’. Hence, they are placed in the possession case.
Let’s examine all the given options:
A)We use Who in relative clauses to refer to a particular person or animal.
Example- She’s the woman who doesn’t like my work.
B)We use Who’s as a contradiction of who is.
Example- Who’s that woman?
C)We use Whom mostly with prepositions, as it holds a formal value.
Example- There is only one man to whom the child spoke.
D)We use whose as a relative pronoun to show possession by people.
Example- This is the girl whose mother is hospitalized.
So, the correct answer is Option D- Whose.

Note: Whose is used when we connect a phrase to a pronoun or noun. It is used in the possession case.