Relative clauses (3) Exercises

UNIT 86 Relative clauses (3) Exercises

86.1   You were on vacation with a friend of yours. You met some people who had so bad experiences during their vacation. You met:

1.   some people/their car broke down.

2.   a man/his wife got sick and was taken to the hospital.

3.   a woman/her husband was arrested by the police.

4.   a girl/her passport was stolen.

5.   a couple/their luggage disappeared

You can't recall the names of these people. Ask your friend, making sentences with whose.

1.   What was the name of the people whose car broke down?
2.   What was the name of the man____________________________________________?

3.   What__________________________________________________________________________?

4.  _________________________________________________________________________________?


5. __________________________________________________________________________________?
 
86.2   The sentences in this exercise are not complete. Complete them with where . . . .Use the sentences in the box to make your relative clauses

• I can buy postcards there.

• I was born there.

• she had bought it there.

• we spent our vacation there.

• we can have a really good meal there.

• people are buried there.

1.   I recently went back to the town. Where I was born.

2.   The dress didn't fit her, so she took it back to the store_______________________________

3.   Do you know a restaurant_______________________________________________________________?

4.   Is there a store near here________________________________________________________________?

5.   The place was really beautiful___________________________________________________________?

6.   A cemetery is a place_____________________________________________________________________?
                     
86.3   Complete the sentences with a relative clause. Use the sentences in the box to make your relative clauses.

• (her) dog bit me

• they don't have a car (for this reason)

• John is staying (there)

• I didn't write to you (for this reason)

• We first met (on that day )

• World War II ended (in that year)

• (his/her) parents are dead 

• you called (that evening)

1.   Do you remember the day (that) we first met?

2.   An orphan is a child________________________________________________________________________

3.   The reason________________________________________was that I didn't know your address.

4.   Unfortunately I wasn't home the evening________________________________________________

5.   I protested to the woman__________________________________________________________________
 
6.   The reason__________________________________________________is that they can't afford one.

7.   Do you know the name of the hotel______________________________________________________?

8.   Nineteen forty-five was the year_________________________________________________________?