1. In non-defining relative clauses you can use which to refer to the whole clause before. We have to use a comma before which.

  • Most of the students passed the exam, which made the teacher very proud.

2. We use that (not which) after:

→ something, everything, nothing, anything
→ numeral
→ all, some, any, no, none, little, few
→ the superlative

  • Everything (that) he said was true.
  • The first thing (that) you must do is marry her.
  • All visitors (that) come to Prague admire it.

3. What is not a relative pronoun. It is at the beginning of a noun-clause, or an object-clause.

  • Show me what you have in your hand.          X           Show me everything that you have in your hand.
  • What he said was true.          X           Everything (that) he said was true.

4. Sentences with two meanings:

  • My brother who is in Switzerland is a surgeon.
    I have another brother or other brothers somewhere else.
  • My brother, who is in Switzerland, is a surgeon.
    → I have only one brother.
  • The test paper which everyone failed was too difficult.
    → There were other papers, which everyone did not fail.
  • The test paper, which everyone failed, was too difficult. 
    → There was a single test paper and everybody failed it.

5. Quantity phrase pronouns:

→  both of whom
→  none of whom
→ 
all of whom
→ 
few of whom
→ 
a lot of whom
→ 
nothing of which
→ 
neither of which 

  • They have two sons, both of whom are tall.
  • Three buses arrived, all of which were crowded.
  • She showed me two coats, neither of which fitted me.
  • They’ve built twenty flats, few of which have two bathrooms.
  • There were five boys at the party, none of whom she liked.
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