Combine the following two sentences into one sentence using a relative clause:
Meera is the girl. Her painting won the first prize at the district fair.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Meera is the girl whose painting won the first prize at the district fair.
Joining two sentences with "whose":
- A relative clause describes a noun. It begins with a word such as who, which or whose.
- Whose shows that something belongs to a person. It takes the place of a word like his, her or their.
- In the second sentence, "her painting" means the girl’s painting. So "her" becomes whose. The clause comes right after "the girl".
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: Meera is the girl who’s painting won the first prize at the district fair. — Incorrect. “Who’s” is the short form of “who is”. “The girl who is painting won the first prize” makes no sense. Example: Meera is the girl who’s standing near the gate.
Option 3: Meera is the girl that her painting won the first prize at the district fair. — Incorrect. “That” cannot show what belongs to a person. So “her” stays in the sentence, and the clause does not join properly. Only “whose” can take the place of “her”.
Option 4: Meera is the girl whose painting it won the first prize at the district fair. — Incorrect. In the clause, “whose painting” is already the subject of “won”. The extra “it” gives the verb a second subject.