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Relative clauses 

Check assignments  9 and 10 pp. 72, 73

Key to chapter 6 can be found on SOM > Jaarbijlagen > Block 2

Relative clauses 

At the end of this class you can answer the following questions:

• What are restrictive relative clauses?
  
• What are non-restrictive relative clauses?
  
• When do you use who, whom, whose, which, where, why and that?
  
• When can you leave out the relative pronoun?
  
• What happens to the relative pronoun who when it is preceded by a preposition?

Relative clauses describe or give extra information about something.

1. true
2. false

That's the house .... I was born .

1. that
2. who
3. where
4. which

My Auntie Ella,
... is a journalist, is coming to visit next week.

1. that
2. who
3. whom
4. which

We use relative pronouns like 'which', 'that', 'who' and 'where' at the beginning of relative clauses.

1. true
2. false

The early 1960s, ....
the Beatles first started, was a very exciting time in popular culture.

1. that
2. what
3. when
4. which

Fill in all possible options:
This is the town in ....... I spent my childhood

The information in relative clauses is always essential for understanding the sentence.

1. true
2. false

My essay on Shakespeare, ......
I found quite difficult, got a really good mark in the end.

1. that
2. what
3. who
4. which

The punctuation is different for restrictive and non-restrictive clauses.

1. true
2. false

Fill in all possible options:
John, ...... I greatly admire, used to study at Eton.

That's the girl .......
brother is in your class.

1. whose
2. who's
3. which
4. whom

The snake
.... was in the garden last week belongs to our next-door neighbour.

1. who
2. which
3. that
4. what

Fill in all possible options:
I work in that big yellow building .......
you can see over there.

You can leave out the relative pronoun when ...

1. it is not the subject of the relative clause
2. it is followed by a pronoun
3. if it is in a restrictive relative clause
4. all of the above

Questions? 

Study for the test or practise online on 

Perfect E.G.

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/relative-clauses.html

E. Hiflen

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/pronouns/relative_pronouns.htm

Br Council

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-grammar-reference/relative-pronouns-and-relative-clauses

E4U

https://www.english-4u.de/en/grammar-exercises/relative-pronouns.htm

Relative clauses 

At the end of this class you can answer the following questions:

• What are restrictive relative clauses?
  
• What are non-restrictive relative clauses?
  
• When do you use who, whom, whose, which, where, why and that?
  
• When can you leave out the relative pronoun?
  
• What happens to the relative pronoun who when it is preceded by a preposition?