Complete the following sentence using the appropriate Adjective Clause :
The doctor has given me the medicine ________.
(A) who I must take
(B) where I must take
(C) that I must take
(D) when I must take
(E) whom I must take
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (C) Only
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, for example a tall tree, the food is tasty.
An adjective clause describes a noun and begins with a relative word. The noun here is "the medicine", a thing, so the clause needs a relative pronoun for things: that (or which).
(A) who I must take — Incorrect.
- "Who" refers to people, not things.
(B) where I must take — Incorrect.
- "Where" refers to a place.
- Medicine is not a place.
(C) that I must take — Correct.
- "That" refers to the thing, the medicine, and is the object of "take".
(D) when I must take — Incorrect.
- "When" refers to a time.
- It would also leave "take" without an object.
(E) whom I must take — Incorrect.
- "Whom" is the object form for people, not things.
Contrast: who and whom are used for people, that and which for things.