ABSTRACT
Relative pronouns are words like ‘who’, ‘which’, ‘that’ in English which refer back to a preceding noun or pronoun, known as the antecedent, and introduce a so-called relative clause, a group of words within a sentence which further defines the antecedent or provides additional information about it. In English, the relative pronoun can be omitted under certain circumstances (cf. ‘the movie we saw’ vs. ‘the movie that/which we saw’); this can never happen in Portuguese.
