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Relative Clauses (Exercises)

1. Complete the following sentences using a Relative Pronoun. We may meet some other people _____ you can talk to. The news team choose the stories _____ will be in the news. Here's a man ______ face you'll recognise. That's the soap opera ______ you can see every evening at seven on TBC. This is the room ______ Mark asked Jill to marry him. We report on all the sports events ______ take place around the world. For instance, people like Sally Ravenna ______ were stars. Jack's the man ______ old boots were sold recently for 10.000€. 2. Join these pairs of sentences with a relative pronoun. I've got a ring. It belonged to my grandmother. My sister has a beautiful leather jacket. It cost $200. I have a penfriend. He lives in Australia. This is the computer. It doesn't work. Those are the singers. They won a music competition on television last night. My brother told me about his friend. She worked for a film company. 3. Complete these sen...

Relative Clauses (Exercises)

1. Join the following pairs of sentences using a Relative Pronoun. The new director is very popular. She gets on well with everyone. The beach is very quiet. We always go to it. I went to see the film Titanic . I enjoyed it very much. Our cat is called William. We've had him for five years. It was 1998. I met her for the first time. The house is the biggest in the village. The doctor lives there. George speaks Spanish. His wife is from Argentina. The winters are very cold. I enjoy them. 2. Fill each of the blanks with one suitable word. Wasn't there some German or Czech author beginning with a K in ________ novels individuals got lost in bureaucratic mazes? We are blessed with good health, for _____ we should all be grateful. Anything _________ you want you can have. Anyone ________ wants to help should leave their contribution in this box. Much ________ has been said will soon be forgotten. We bought six loaves of bread for the party, half of _______...

John Lennon (Relative Clauses Review)

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Complete the text with a relative pronoun in each space, or leave it blank if it is possible. John Lennon John Lennon, _______ was born in 1940, was a member of the Beatles, the British rock group. He grew up in Liverpool, ________ he performed in a number of groups, and met the other members of the Beatles. After studying at art college, _______ he disliked as much as he had disliked school, Lennon spent his time learning to be a musician. In 1962, the Beatles had their first hit record, ________ was soon followed by success in the USA. Lennon and Paul McCartney, another young musician _______ he had med in 1957, wrote most of the group's songs. The success of the Beatles, ________ was worldwide, created problems for Lennon, ________ often said exactly what he thought to the press and TV, and got into trouble. By the time the Beatles stopped working together, ________ came about during the late 1960s. Lennon's songs had become both political and highly personal. His ...

Easter Island (Relative Clauses Review)

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Choose the best option for the following sentences. If you think it is not necessary to write anything, choose the option - Easter Island Easter Island, which is / which it is in the Pacific Ocean more than 3,000 km from the coast of South America, has a terrible lesson to teach the modern world. When the first Europeans visited it in 1722, they found an island short of food on which / which are about 3,000 people were living in a state of constant war. The Europeans were surprised to find a large number of huge statues, which / which they had been moved over great distances, and to which / which clearly belonged to a great civilization. The people whose / - they found on the island, however, were poor and backward. The Europeans supposed that these people could not have built such large statues, which / which it meant that some other mysterious people must have done so. However, modern research has shown that the inhabitants of Easter Island were responsible for th...

Relative Clauses (Use of English Advanced)

1. Finish each of the sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the sentence before it. This is precisely the sort of coffee-making machine we need in the office. This short of coffee-making machine... We have had very little rain over the past few months and even the bit we did have didn't last long What...  She gave the reasons for her sudden disappearance at the weekend. She explained why... It's up to you to decide the way you want to live your life. How...  Modern traffic and pollution problems are the responsibility of the person who invented the car. Whoever... 2. Rewrite each of the following sentences to include which, who, where  or whose : I met him in May and it was then that I fell in love with him. We met because a friend introduced us. He had the most beautiful smile and that was what attracted me initially. We spent a weekend in Venice and that was the place we decided to get engaged. We ha...