Episode 14 Interrogative and relative pronouns
Hello folks! Happy new year! We’re starting this year with a complex topic; interrogative and relative pronouns. The word what is increasingly frequently used in place of the relative pronoun that. Based on the work I’ve seen including this error, it’s clear to me that some students believe that what can be used exactly the same way as the relative pronoun that. What is almost always an interrogative pronoun, sometimes an exclamative, but very rarely a relative pronoun. This episode also takes a look at reduced relative clauses which exclude the relative pronoun in favour of a participle form of the verb. Germans overuse this type of construction and I explain why.
