Relative Clauses

PRACTICE
NAME:_____________________________________________________________________
Choose the correct words in italics:
1. Agatha Chrisie is the writer who/ which invented Miss Marple.
2.Is this one of the DVDs that/ what you have already seen?
3. Mike’s the man who/ whose wife writers detective novels.
4. What’s the name of the hotel that / who you visited last summer?
5.I could never live in a house that/ who doesn’t have a nice garden.
6. A whale is an animal who/ that breathes air but lives underwater.
7. I don’t understand what/ that our teacher issaying.
8. Frank’s the man what/ that owns our local gym.
Complete each pair of sentences by making the second sentence into a non-defining relative clause.
1. My brother loves chocolate ice cream.He is rather fat.
My brother , who is rather , loves chocolate ice cream._________________________
2. My uncle’s cottage has been damaged by floods. We usually spend our holidays there.______________________________________________________________________
3. My bicycle has been stolen. I only got it last week.
______________________________________________________________________4. The chemistry exam was actually quite easy. We had been worrying about it.
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5. The young man caused a fight in a bar. Hisgirlfriend had left him.
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6. During the summer there are dreadful traffic jams.______________________________________________________________________
7. My parents enjoyed that film very much. They don’t often go to the cinema.
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In eight of thesesentences there is a mistake. Underline the mistakes and write the correction.
1. Have you seen the folden; that I keep my notes in? folder that___________________
2. Is that the man which...