English Relative Pronouns and Adverbs Exercises
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5. The exercise _______ Mai is doing is very easy.
A. whose B. who C. which D. whom
6. His mother _______ admires her parents, is a famous actress.
A. who B. whom C. that D. whose
7. The new building _______ is in front of my house fell down.
A. where B. which C. whose D. whom
8. We need a teacher _______ native language is English.
A. who B. whose C. whom D. that
9. The man _______ was sitting in the meeting hall didn't seem friendly to us at all.
A. which B. whom C. where D. that
10. We'll come in June _______ the schools are on holiday.
A. whom B. where C. which D. when
2. Complete the sentences with the correct relative pronouns or adverbs.
1. I talked to the boy _______ bike had broken down on the way to school.
2. Paris, _______ Michelle was born, is the capital of France.
3. Tom lives in a house in Ho Chi Minh City, _______ is in Viet Nam.
4. The girl _______ you have just talked to is my old friend.
5. My brother, _______ has just arrived at the bus station, wants to meet our parents first.
6. Thank you very much for your document, _______ was very useful.
7. This woman, _______ son is a professor, forgot her umbrella.
8. The children _______ fought in the street are not from our school.
9. Sunday is the only day _______ I can relax.
10. Tell me the reason _______ you were late for class yesterday.
3. Combine the sentences, using relative clauses.
1. He is working for a woman. I spoke to her the other day.
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2. The film is about a woman. Her son mysteriously disappears.
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Hello! Today we are going to work on completing sentences using the correct relative pronouns or relative adverbs. These words help us connect ideas and provide more details about nouns in a sentence.
Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
Filling in the blanks for Exercise 2.
Let's look at the first sentence. I talked to the boy, blank, bike had broken down on the way to school.
1. I talked to the boy ______ bike had broken down...
We are talking about a possession, the bike belonging to the boy. For possession, we use whose.
Sentence two. Paris, blank, Michelle was born, is the capital of France.
2. Paris, ______ Michelle was born, is the capital of France.
Paris is a place, and the following clause explains what happened there. So, we use the relative adverb where.
Sentence three. Tom lives in a house in Ho Chi Minh City, blank, is in Viet Nam.
3. Tom lives in a house in Ho Chi Minh City, ______ is in Viet Nam.
Here, we are referring to the city or house, which are things. Since the relative pronoun is the subject of the clause, we use which.
Sentence four involves a person who is the object of the verb talked to. The girl, blank, you have just talked to is my old friend.
4. The girl ______ you have just talked to is my old friend.
When referring to a person as an object, we can use whom, who, or that. Whom is the most formal choice here.
Moving on to sentence five. My brother, blank, has just arrived at the bus station, wants to meet our parents first.
5. My brother, ______ has just arrived at the bus station...
Since my brother is a person and the subject of the clause, we use who.
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