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RELATIVE SENTENCES

RELATIVE SENTENCES

1.- Join these sentences using who or which. (All of them will also join with that.)

1 He's the accountant. He does my accounts.

2 She's the nurse. She looked after me.
3 They're the postcards. They arrived yesterday.
4 They're the secretaries. They work in our office.
5 That's the magazine. It arrived this morning.
6 They're the workmen. They repaired our roof.

2.- Join these sentences with who(m), which or nothing. (All of them will join with that.)
1. He's the accountant. You recommended him to me.
2. She's the nurse. I saw her at the hospital.
3. They're the postcards. I sent them from Spain.
4. They're the secretaries. Mr Pym employed them.
5. That's the magazine. I got it for you yesterday.
6. They're the workmen. I paid them for the job.
7. That's the dog! I saw it at the dog show last week.
8. They're the birds. I fed them this morning.

3.- Join each pair of sentences in three different ways.

1. He's the man. I sent the money to him. He is the man (to whom…/whom….to/the man I…)
2. He's the boy. I bought this toy for him.
3. She's the nurse.-l gave the flowers to her.
4. That's the building. I passed by it.
5. That's the chair. I sat on it.
6. They're the shops. I got these from them.

4.- Join these sentences using whose.

1 He is the customer. I lost his address.
2 She is the novelist. Her book won first prize.
3 They are the children. Their team won the match.. .
4 You are the expert. We want your advice.
5 I'm the witness. My evidence led to his arrest
6 She's the woman. The film was made in her house. .

5.- Add commas to the following sentences where necessary.

1. My husband,who is on a business trip to Rome all this week,sent me this postcard.
2. The person who told you that story didn't know what he was talking about.
3. Will the driver whose vehicle has the registration number PXB2140 please move it?
4. The author Barbara Branwell whose latest novel has already sold over a million copies will be
5. giving a lecture at the public library tomorrow.
6. The person you got that information from is my cousin.
7. The play Cowards which opens at the Globe soon had a successful season on Broadway.
8. Cowards is the name of the play which ran for over two years.
9. The thing that pleases me most is that I'll never have to ask for your help again.
10. The manager whom I complained to about the service has refunded part of our bill.
11. Sally West whose work for the deaf made her famous has been killed in a car accident.
12. We found it impossible to cross the river that had flooded after the storm.
13. I have just learned that the engine part which I need is no longer made.
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Combine the following pairs or groups of sentences by means of relative pronouns, making any changes
necessary.
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1 You sent me a present. Thank you very much for it. (Thank you very much for. . .)
2 She was dancing with a student. He had a slight limp
3 I am looking after some children. They are terribly spoilt
4 The bed has no mattress. I sleep on this bed. (The bed I. . .)
5 Romeo and Juliet were lovers. Their parents hated each other.
6 There wasn't any directory in the telephone box. I was phoning from this box.
7 This is Mrs Jones. Her son won the championship last year.
8 I was sitting in a chair. It suddenly collapsed. (The chair. . .)
9 Mr Smith said he was too busy to speak to me. I had come specially to see him.
10 The man was sitting at the desk. I had come to see this man.
11 I missed the train. I usually catch this train. And I had to travel on the next. This was a slow train.
(Make into one sentence.)
12 His girl friend turned out to be an enemy spy. He trusted her absolutely.
13 The car had bad brakes. We were in this car. And The man didn't know the way. This man was
driving. (Make into one sentence.)
14 This is the story of a man. His wife suddenly loses her memory.
15 We'll have to get across the frontier. This will be difficult.
16 A man brought in a small girl. Her hand had been cut by flying glass.
17 The car crashed into a queue of people. Four of them were killed.
18 The roads were crowded with refugees. Many of them were wounded.
19 I was waiting for a man. He didn't turn up. (The man . . .)
20 Tom came to the party in patched jeans. This surprised the other guests. Most of the other guests were
wearing evening dress.
21 The firm is sending me to York. I work for this firm. (The firm . . .)
22 The Smiths were given rooms in the hotel. Their house had been destroyed in the explosion.
23 I saw several houses. Most of them were quite unsuitable.
24 He wanted to come at 2 a.m. This didn't suit me at all.
25 This is a story of a group of boys. Their plane crashed on an uninhabited island.
26 They tie up parcels with string. This is so weak that the parcel usually comes to pieces before you get
it home. (The string. . .)
27 He introduced me to his students. Most of them were from abroad.
28 He expected me to pay £2 for 12 eggs. Four of the eggs were broken.
29 He spoke in French. But the people didn't know French. He was speaking to these people. (Combine
these last two sentences only.)
30 The boy was a philosophy student and wanted to sit up half the night discussing philosophy. Peter
shared a flat with this boy. (two ways)
31 They gave me four very bad tyres. One of them burst before I had driven four miles.
32 She climbed to the top of the Monument to see the wonderful view. She had been told about this
view.
33 I was given this address by a man. I met this man on a train.
34 The bar was so noisy that I couldn't hear the person at the other end of the line. I was telephoning
from this bar.
35 A man answered the phone. He said Tom was out.
36 The horse kept stopping to eat grass. I was on the horse. This (his continual stopping) annoyed the
riding instructor.
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1.-combine them into onе sentence.

l. I have a friend. Мy friend livеs in Mехiсo City.
2. Mexiсo City is an exсiting сity. The citу atttaсts a lot of tourists.
3. Marta has a brothеr. Her brother's name is Manuеl.
4. He works for a magazine. The magazine is vеry popular in Meхiсo.
5. Мanuel writes a сolumn. The соlumn dеals with relationships.
6. An artiсle won a prize. The artiсle disсussed friеndships.
7, A pеrson is luсky. That person has a lot of friends.

2.-w hen, or where to combine thеm into onе sentence.

l. That’s thе house. I gтеw up in thе hоuse with my sister Emilia.
2. Thе housе was beautiful. We lived in the house.
3. Еmilia and I shared a room. Wе spent nights talking there.
4. Aсross the hall, I had a good friend. I went to sсhool with hеr.
5. I took piano lessоns from a Woman. I met her in the bakery.
6. I rеmеmber one Summer. The whole familv went to thе lake thеn.
7. Those wеre good times. I’ll always miss them.

3.-true or false? Writе T (True)o r F (False)f or thе statеmеnt that follows.

Use thе сomputеr whiсh is in the living room.
There is only one сomputer.
Prеss the red button, whiсh is on thе right.
There is probably only onе red button.
My sister who fixеs сomputers lives in Tехas.
I havе more than onе sister.
My stereo, whiсh worked yеsterday, dоesn,t work today.
It's likely that I havе another sterеo I сan use.
A сеll phone whiсh remembers numbers is very сonvеnient.
All сell phones сan remembеr numbers.
My roommate, who is afraid of сomputers, has never been on the Internеt.
I probably have more than onе roommate.

4.-Combine: Read thеsе pаirs of sentenсes.Combinе thеm by сhanging the

sесond
sentence into an adjectiveе clausе. Use a relative pronoun only when
nеcеssary.
Use commаs for non-identifуing odjеctivе clousеs.
l. I bought a сell phоne. I сan usе it to sеnd and reсeive e-mail.
2. Мy new сеll phonе has beсome a neсessary part of life. I only bought it a
month ago.
3.- I remеmbеr thе day. I was afraid to use my nеw сomputеr then
4. Now thеrе are psyсhologists. They help tесhnophobеs use teсhnology.
5. Dr. Miсhеllе Weil wrote a book about teсhnostress. Shе is a psyсhologist.
6, I work in an offiсe. In my offiсe, the software сhanges frequеntlу.
7, A lot of pеоple suffеr from tесhnostrеss. Thosе pеoplе work in my offiсe.
8. Some pеоplе dream of a job. They сan do the jоb without teсhnologу.