Do you remember what I told you about homophones in class? Homophones are words that have different spelling but same pronunciation. The example I gave you was their, there and they're, all three pronounced /dea/. Other instances of homophones are your, you're /jo:/ or one, won /wAn/.
As regards relative pronouns, we should not leave aside two homophones that may cause confusion even to native speakers of English: whose and who's. The difference in form and meaning is obvious, the former is the relative adjective (Spanish 'cuyo-a,-os-as') and the latter is the contraction of the relative pronoun who and either the verb form is or has. Let's see this in the following examples:
I know a woman whose kids study here.
I know a woman who's been to Iraq twice.
I know a woman who's living in Iraq.
Some practice?
Exercise 1, Exercise 2.
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