Relative Clauses 4th Year 1
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RELATIVE CLAUSES
DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES
1.Read these sentences. Decide which ones dont need WHO, WHICH or THAT and
cross it out.
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Sandra is the teacher who we invited to tea.
Heres the book which I promised to lend you.
Why did you change the plan that we made?
Thats the hotel which has a swimming pool on the roof.
Wheres the bunk of flowers that you bought yesterday?
Andrew is the man who won the science prize.
2. Join each pair of sentences by means of a defining relative- clause. Put the
pronoun in brackets if it is the object.
1.Thats the ladder. Paul fell off it yesterday.
2. Theres the hotel. We stayed there last month.
3. I am wearing the bracelet. You bought it to me for my birthday.
4. Ive met a man. His brother is a famous actor.
5. The hotel has been rebuilt. It burnt down last spring.
6. The day was very hot. We were in Venice then.
NON- DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES
3. Join each pair of sentences by means of a non-defining relative clause.
1. Ipods are still expensive. They are becoming very popular.
2. In the nineteenth century people worked hard. Victoria was Queen of England then.
3. Fruit and vegetables are good for your skin. They contain lots of vitamins.
4. Our neighbours throw stones at our dog. They dont like animals.
5. My friend Louise is exactly the same height as me. I have borrowed her dress.
6. The Natural History Museum in London is a good place to take children. There is a
model dinosaur there.
7. My grandfather was only 1.90 metres tall. He lived to be ninety-nine.
8. Janes school will be knocked down in December. It is 100 years old.
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DEFINING/ NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES
4. Complete the text by writing one word in each gap
I went out yesterday with my fianc Mark. Hes the man .. Im
going to marry next year. We went to a town . is called Hilltown, not far from
where we live. The first shop .. we went to was the place .. they make
special jewellery. We want to find a wedding ring. is very unusual. Id like a ring
made out of Welsh gold, but the man owns that particular shop said he didnt
have any rings like that. He told us he has a colleague .. daughter has got a
Welsh gold ring and he said he would find out where she got it from and let us know. After we
had done a bit of shopping, we went to visit Marks grandmother, .. lives near
Hilltown. Her flat, is small but very nice, is next to the park
Mark and I first met, so its always nice to go there. At half past eight, . we
realized how late it was, we said goodbye to Marks grandmother and left for home. We
stopped for a pizza at the caf is owned by Marks cousin, and when we
arrived home at ten oclock, Marks mum, . had prepared a meal for us, said she had
been wondering where we were!
5. Find the extra word and write it in the space.
1. This is the book which Ive been reading it for the last three weeks. .
2. The hospital in where I was born has been closed.
3. Chocolate, which is my favourite food, it is fattening if you eat a lot of it. ..
4. Whats the name of that rock group whose CDs which your brother listens to all the
time? ..
5. Where is the kitten which you found it? .
6. Join each pair of sentences by means of a relative clause either defining or nondefining. Omit the pronoun if possible.
1. This bag is made of crocodile skin. I bought it at Portobello Market.
2. The child was sick at the table. He was sitting next to me at the wedding.
3. Martin was sick at the table. He was sitting next to me at the wedding.
4. Tom promised to teach us all about sailing. We all went sailing on his boat.
5. It is the boat. We all went sailing on it last weekend.
6. Our new puppy hasnt learned to walk on a lead yet. It is a Dalmatian.
7. The furniture was ordered from abroad. It is being delivered tomorrow.
8. This furniture is made of Swedish pine. It was delivered yesterday.
9. The English professor is called Rose. She is planning a field trip to London.
10.Thats the professor. He gave me bad marks all last term.
11.Thats the place. We have to go there to vote.
12.That building is called the White House. Its where the President of the USA lives.
13.The house has been demolished. WE used to live there.
14.Is he the doctor? He operated on your leg.
15.Are these the keys? You were looking for them.
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16.Nicholas II was the last czar of Russia. You were referring to him.
17.This is the very room. I met my wife in it. (two ways)
18.Grammar is necessary in language learning. Students dislike it very much.
19.The ties are awful. Mark wears them every day.
20.We cut the bread with a knife. It is very sharp. (2 different relative clauses)
a) WE cut .
b) The knife .
21.This clock was in a jewellery box. Its works are very rusty (=oxidado)
22.The spoon had been taken from the school cafeteria. He was eating with it (2
different relative clauses)
a) The spoon .
b) He was eating .
Jungle girl found
Choose the right word to fill in each blank
A girl 1) __________ disappeared 2) __________ she was eight 3) __________ old has been found
4) __________ Cambodia, according to 5) __________ father. Eighteen years after she
disappeared, a woman was 6) __________ in a village in the Ratanakkiri province trying to steal
food. The woman who was found looks 7) __________ other members of the family.
She can't speak 8) __________ language that has been identified and is very frightened, but her
family hope that she will adjust and settle down.
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