IES Libertas. Torrevieja.

Departamento de Ingls

relative clauses
1. Join the two sentences with a relative pronoun. There may be more than one correct answer.
e.g.: This is the CD. I bought it for Jane.
This is the CD which / that I bought for Jane.
Jennys brother looks like her. Hes about her same age.
Jennys brother, who is about her same age, looks like her.
a. Grand Avenue was the best place to buy clothes. I used to go shopping there.
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b. I will call the students. I went to London with them last year.
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c. Thats the man. He weighs over 120 kilos.
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d. Tims shoes dont match his jacket. Theyre brown.
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e. My friend Claudia used to be a top model. She was extremely thin.
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f. Macalester is an American college. Kofi Annan studied there.
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g. I first met Sally in 1999. I was working in Dublin back then.
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h. Nail-biting is a habit. You should really try to stop it.
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i. Pete has never talked to those students. Their stay abroad was certainly amazing.
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j. Eileen is a wonderful person. Her husband is very unfriendly.
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k. Lars may bring us something. We want it.
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l. Rolling Stone is the magazine. We told them about it yesterday.
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m. Please, tell me the reason. Linda got so upset because of it.
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n. In 1992 the Olympics took place in Barcelona. Brenda was a baby in 1992.
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2. Point out which of the sentences you joined in Exercise 1 contain a Defining Relative Clause
and which contain a Non-defining Relative Clause.
e.g.: This is the CD which / that I bought for Jane.
Which / That I bought for Jane is a defining relative clause
Jennys brother, who is about her same age, looks like her.
Who is about her same age is a non-defining relative clause
a. _________________________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________________________
d. _________________________________________________________________
e. _________________________________________________________________
f. _________________________________________________________________
g. _________________________________________________________________
h. _________________________________________________________________
i. _________________________________________________________________
j. _________________________________________________________________
k. _________________________________________________________________
l. _________________________________________________________________
m. _________________________________________________________________
n. _________________________________________________________________
3. Find four sentences in Exercise 1 which can be joined with a Contact Clause (with no relative
pronoun) and rejoin them that way.
e.g.: This is the CD. I bought it for Jane.
This is the CD I bought for Jane.
a. _________________________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________________________
d. _________________________________________________________________

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