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首先，同动词宾语一样，出现在介词宾语位置的关系代词主要有who，whom，which和that，并且可以省去这些关系代词。
不过，关系代词作介词宾语的用法比作动词宾语的用法要复杂。复杂的原因是与介词的位置有关。请看例句：
a. The man who I was telling you about is sitting over there.
这里who充当介词about的宾语。该句还可以有下列这些不同版本：
用关系代词whom：
b. The man whom I was telling you about is sitting over there.
用关系代词that：
c. The man that I was telling you about is sitting over there.
省去关系代词：
d. The man @ I was telling you about is sitting over there.
以上四个句子的共同特点是：介词about都位于定语从句的末尾，简称 介词后置 （finally placed preposition）。现在我们可以把定语从句末尾的介词置于定语从句的开头，简称 介词前置 （initially placed preposition）：
介词前置：
e. The man about whom I was telling you is sitting over there.
值得注意的是，当介词前置时，我们不能像a句那样使用who：
The man about who I was telling you is sitting over there. *
不能像c句那样使用that：
The man about that I was telling you is sitting over there. *
不能像d句那样省去关系代词：
The man about @ I was telling you is sitting over there. *
我们再来看一个先行词是物的例句：
a. I love music which I can dance to.
b. I love music that I can dance to.
c. I love music @ I can dance to.
d. I love music to which I can dance.
当介词前置时，我们不能像b句那样使用that：
I love music to that I can dance. *
不能像c句那样省去关系代词：
I love music to @ I can dance. *
由此可见，充当介词宾语的关系代词，若指人，句子可以有5种写法；若指物，句子可以有4种写法，见下表总结（介词以to为例）：
最后再来看下面这个很好的例句：
The person that you will spend the most time with in your life is yourself, so try to make yourself as interesting as possible.
这里关系词that充当定语从句中介词with的宾语，定语从句还原成简单句是：
You will spend the most time with this person(=yourself) in your life.
如果把介词with提到关系词前面，此时的关系词只能用whom：
The person with whom you will spend the most time in your life is yourself, ...
这句话的意思是 “人的一生中，与你共度时光最多的还是你自己，所以要尽量让自己成为一个有趣的人” 。所以，我们要好好地善待自己。我认为，善待自己首先就是要爱惜自己健康的身体，要感恩这副健康的躯体带着我们去看，去玩，去听，去享乐，去思考，去享受生活中的美味，去遍览生活中的美景。据说，很多人在老去的时候都后悔没有善待自己的身体。陪伴我们时间最长的不是朋友，不是父母，不是我们自己的孩子，也不是我们的婚姻伴侣。这副躯体才是陪伴我们一生的唯一伴侣。
介词宾语关系代词（preposition-object relatives）
关于“介词+关系代词”的结构，我专门在 第六章 讨论，具体讲述介词选择的规律。
Example:
I don't like people ___________________.
I don't like people who say one thing but do something else. （who作主语）
I don't like people who I can't trust. （who作动词trust的宾语）
I don't like people who I have nothing in common with. （who作介词with的宾语）
1.I like people ___________________.
2.I don't like teachers ___________________.
3.A good friend is a person ___________________.
4.I have a good friend ___________________.
5.I enjoy the music that we are listening to it.
6.The people which live next to me are friendly.
7.He is the man who he taught me English.
8.I gave the book to him that he needed it.
9.The airline has a booklet who will tell you most of the important things about a trip to Europe.
10.The man which told me the news refused to give me his name.
11.The book which I bought it at the bookstore was very useful.
12.The woman was nice that I met yesterday.
13.Do you know the people who lives in that house?
14.The people who I met them at the party last night were interesting.
15.The girl that answered the phone was polite.
16.I didn't know any of the people that Bill invited to his party.
17.The woman that I saw in the park was feeding the pigeons.
18.I like the barber that usually cuts my hair.
19.The person that I admire most is my father.
20.The people that I met at the party last night were very nice.
21.The people that live next to me have three cars.
22.The soup that I had for lunch was too salty.
23.The pill that I took made me sleepy.
24.My daughter asked me a question that I couldn't answer.
25.The man that my sister goes out with is tall, dark and handsome.
26.I couldn't understand the woman that I talked to on the phone.
27.The woman who was dancing with me stepped on my toe.
28.The woman I was dancing with stepped on my toe.
29.That's the person to whom I talked.
30.I enjoy the music that we are listening to.