THEORY RELATED TO RELATIVE, EMPHATIC AND INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

Rule 1- 
Use of Both
‘Both’ should be followed by ‘and’ and not by ‘as well as’. Negative is avoided with both.
For example

• 1) Both you as well as my brother are going to attend her marriage tomorrow.
• 2) Both are them not going there.
• Neither of them is going there.

Rule 2- 
‘Which’ is used in place of ‘who’ when we are referring to a choice between two or more than two things or persons.
For example

• 1) Of the two sisters who is the more intelligent.
• 2) Who is your father in the crowd?
• 3) Who is better of the two dancers in our society?

Rule 3- 
Possessive case. We don’t use noun after possessive case of a pronoun.
For example

• 1) This book is mine = This is my book.
• 2) This shirt is yours = This is your shirt.
• 3) Our is a populous country.

Rule 4- 
The relative pronoun should be expressed according to its relation with the verb of the adjective clause. ‘Who’ is used as a subject of a verb or adjective clause and ‘Whom’ is used as an object of a verb of adjective clause.
For example

• 1) He was talking of the women who, he said, he met in America.
• 2) She is the kind of lady whom, everybody knows, is intelligent.

Rule 5- 
The use of ‘But’ as a relative pronoun.
For example

• 1) There was none by wept.
• 2) There is no country but is corrupt.

Rule 6- 
The use of the ‘same’ as a pronoun is wrong.
For example

• 1) I shall give you a book and the same is very useful.

• 2) He brought a house and is living in the same.

Rule 7- 
‘What’ is used without an antecedent and it refers to things only.
For example

• 1) It is incredible what she said.

• 2) I don’t believe in the words what she uttered.

• 3) I don’t believe in what you say.

• 4) I know which you say.