The document provides examples and exercises to practice using relative clauses with who, whom, whose, where, that and which. It includes filling in blanks with the correct relative pronouns, combining sentences using relative pronouns, and completing sentences using relative clauses with "where". The exercises help to understand how to use relative pronouns to concisely add information to sentences.
1. RELATIVE CLAUSES:
NAME:________________________________________________________
DATE:___________ ______________CLASS:__________________________
I. See the box, here we have another clear way to understand relativeclauses:
II. Complete each sentences using WHO/WHOM/WHOSE/WHERE:
1. What`s the name of the man __whose___ car you borrowed?
2. A cemetery is a place __________ people are buried.
3. A pacifist is a person __________ believes that all wars are wrong.
4. An orphan is a child __________ parents are dead.
5. The place __________ we spend our holidays was really beautiful.
6. This school is only for children __________ first language is not English.
7. I don`t know the name of the woman to __________ I spoke on the phone.
III. Choose the right meaning from the boxes and then write a sentence with WHO:
Steals from a shop Pays rent to live in a house or flat
Designs buildings Breaks into a house to steal things
Doesn’t believe in god No longer worksand gets money
Is not brave from the state
Buys something from a shop
1. e.g. (an architect) an architect is someone who designs buildings._________________
2. (a burglar) A burglar is someone___________________________________________
3. (a costumer) ____________________________________________________________
4. (a shoplifter) ____________________________________________________________
5. (a coward) ____________________________________________________________
6. (an atheist) ___________________________________________________________
7. (a pensioner) ___________________________________________________________
8. (a tenant) ___________________________________________________________
2. IV. Make one sentence from two. Use WHO/THAT/WHICH.
1. e.g. A girl was injured in the accident. She is now in hospital.
The girl who was injured in the accident is now in hospital.
2. A man answered the phone. He told me you were away.
3. A waitress served us. She was very impolite and impatient.
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4. A building was destroyed in the fire. It has now been rebuilt.
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5. Some people were arrested. They have now been released.
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6. A bus goes to the airport. It runs every half hour.
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V. Complete the sentences. Use the sentences in the boxes to make relative clauses
with WHERE.
I can buy some postcards there
Ann bought a dress there
John is staying there
I was born there
We can have a really good meal there
We had the car repaired there
1. e.g. I recently went back to the town where I was born
2. Do you know a restaurant ________________________________________?
3. Is there a shop near here _________________________________________?
4. I can`t remember the name of the garage_____________________________
5. Do you know the name of the hotel ________________________________?
6. Ann bought a dress which didn’t fit her, so she took it back to the shop
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