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    The document provides examples and exercises on using relative clauses to join sentences together. It discusses defining and non-defining relative clauses, using relative pronouns like who, which, where, and whose. Examples are given of joining sentences with relative pronouns and identifying the subject or object of clauses. Exercises include adding relative pronouns where needed and joining sentences into single sentences using relative pronouns.

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    The document provides examples and exercises on using relative clauses to join sentences together. It discusses defining and non-defining relative clauses, using relative pronouns like who, which, where, and whose. Examples are given of joining sentences with relative pronouns and identifying the subject or object of clauses. Exercises include adding relative pronouns where needed and joining sentences into single sentences using relative pronouns.

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    The document provides examples and exercises on using relative clauses to join sentences together. It discusses defining and non-defining relative clauses, using relative pronouns like who, which, where, and whose. Examples are given of joining sentences with relative pronouns and identifying the subject or object of clauses. Exercises include adding relative pronouns where needed and joining sentences into single sentences using relative pronouns.

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    Relative clauses: defining and non-

    defining
    1. Fill in the following sentences with the appropriate Relative Pronoun: who, which, where,
    whose, when.
    a. I was born in 1936, when the Civil War started.
    b. I know an exciting place you and your boyfriend can go on holidays.
    c. He is the guy car is parked in front of your house.
    d. The woman lives here is always complaining.
    e. The flat he’s rented, is in central London, is really expensive.
    2. Join each pair of sentences using the relative pronoun in brackets.
    a. Mary is having a child. She lives two flats away from us. (who)
    Mary, who lives two flats away from us, is having a child.
    b. Torrevieja is a very cosmopolitan town. We’ve lived there for three years. (where)

    c. The film was really interesting. We saw it last Saturday. (which)

    d. Maria is a very charming girl. Her brother is a friend of mine. (whose)

    e. Two years ago we bought a house. We got married then. (when)

    f. Mr Smedley introduced me to his son. He is my boss. (who)

    g. John Ash is a policeman. His wife was at the party last night. (whose)

    h. Robert is going to get married. He is a lawyer. (who)

    i. Our new car has broken down again. We bought the car only last month. (which)

    j. We stayed in Mary’s place. It is in a small village in the south of England. (which)

    k. Lucas is my best friend. I have known Lucas since I was a child. (who)

    l. Next weekend I’m going to Madrid. My brother has been living there for the past two years.
    (where)

    1º Bachillerato 1
    m. Mary Stuart is in my class at school. Mary Stuart’s father is a famous footballer. (whose)

    3. Study the examples


    John is the friend who I wrote to. (I wrote to John)
    John is the friend who phoned me. (John phoned me)
    a. In which of these sentences is who the subject of the clause?
    b. In which sentence is who the object?
    c. In which sentence can we leave out who?
    4. Add who (that) or which (that) to these sentences, but only where necessary:
    a. Is that the woman/ you told me about?
    Is that the woman you told me about?
    b. Is that the girl/ wrote to you?

    c. The car/ my brother bought wasn’t expensive.

    d. Alex was the man/ you met last week.

    e. I had a coffee with the boy/ lives next door.

    f. Did you see the Italian film/ was on TV last night?

    g. What’s the name of the man/ we met yesterday?

    h. What’s the name of the man/ sold you the car?

    i. Have you seen the letter/ was on the table?

    j. Have you seen the letter/ I put on the table?

    k. The woman/ Steve spoke to on the phone was Mrs Allen.

    l. The woman/ answered the phone was Mrs Allen.

    m. Those are the trousers/ I bought yesterday.

    1º Bachillerato 2
    n. I had a coffee with the girl/ lives next door.

    o. I’ve lost the pens/ I bought this morning.

    5 Join these sentences with who, which, where or whose. Use commas where necessary:
    a. That’s the student. She won the competition prize.
    That’s the student who won the competition prize.
    b. Sharon is my best friend. I’ve known her for a long time.
    Sharon, who I’ve known for a long time, is my best friend.
    c. The theatre is about 200 metres from my house. It is the oldest building in town.

    d. I picked up the papers. They were lying on the pavement.

    e. My grandparents still live in the village. I was born there.

    f. The bar is open all night. We’ve had lunch there.

    1º Bachillerato 3

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