A relative pronoun is used to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun. You see them used everyday with the most common relative pronouns being: who, whom, which, whoever, whomever, whichever, and that.
Examples from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde:
p. 5 ... as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
p. 9 ... at least had been chatted about in the penny newspapers, which is the nineteenth-century standard of immortality.
p 17 ... made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
p.28 ... Lord Henry Wotton strolled /.../ to call on his uncle, Lord Fermor, /.../, whom the outside world called selfish ...
p. 30 Who are her people?
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