DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSE and Non-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSE

HELLO! Underline the antecedent, circle the relative word, and highlight the clause.

Practice One: Match the incomplete sentence with the correct clause (sentence must make sense).

1. The baby, ___, is my baby sister.   that has nine moons

2. They found her purse near the library, ___.   when everyone gets to go home early

3. The café, ___, opens every day.   whose head is bald

 where she lost her bag
4. Neptune is the planet ___. 
 who is a doctor
5. They are planning to meet this Friday, ___. 
 which has the best waffles in town
6. Lina, ___, works in this hospital. 

Practice Two: Fill in the blanks with the correct relative pronoun.

Once upon a time there was a fairy 1. __________ was wise and beautiful. She was friends
with a girl, 2. __________ parents were very busy. They met in a forest in Tarragona, 3. __________
the girl liked to play near a house, 4. __________ was abandoned. One afternoon in winter 5.
___________ it was very cold the child, 6. ___________ didn’t go to school, got lost. She started to
cry near a lake, 7. ___________ turned into silver. The fairy, 8. ___________ was worried about the
girl, appeared near the lake 9. __________ the girl was crying and took her home. Only the fairy and
the girl know the reason 10. ___________ the lake turned into silver.

Practice three: Read carefully, circle the mistakes, and rewrite the sentence. There are Two (2) mistakes.

1. Adam likes to swim here, which the water is warmer here.

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2. She couldn’t stop thinking about, her friends whose we saw this morning.

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3. That is the monkey who loves to steals bananas from our trees.

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4. The teacher which teaches us English, can speak Chinese fluently.

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Practice Four: Circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. The lungs, ___ belong to the respiratory system, ___ us to breathe.

a) which, enables b) which, allow c) that, allow d) that, enable

2. That is the flower ___ David planted in our backyard.

a) that b) which c) a and b d) where

3. Joy, ___ room has a big television, ___ scared of cats.

a) whose, are b) who, is c) whom, are d) whose, is

4. She still remembers the ___ when Brazil won its first World Cup.

a) year b) time c) 1999 d) a and b

5. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are terrestrial ___ that ___ made of rocks.

a) planets, is b) planets, are c) objects, is d) objects, can

6. The attic, ___ they kept the old photo albums, is very dusty.

a) which b) where c) that d) on which

7. His family can’t wait for next year ___ he can finally return to China.

a) when b) where c) why d) in which

8. The nurse, ___ we saw at Happy Mart today, works in our school.

a) whose b) whom c) who d) where

Practice Five: Combine the 2 sentences into 1 sentence.

1. There is a parking lot. I can park my car at the parking lot. (DRC)

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2. Australia is called the land down under. In Australia, we can see koalas and kangaroos. (NDRC)

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3. Starbucks wants to open new stores in China. It does business all over the world. (NDRC)

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4. David interviewed Sally Thompson. She is my neighbour. (NDRC)

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