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I. Combine the sentences using defining relative pronouns. When the relative pronoun is an
object, it can be omitted.
1 That's the girl. She spoke to me yesterday. __________________________________________________.
6 The man smoked forty cigarettes a day. He died of a heart attack. _________________________________ .
8 That's the boy. His mother works in the post office. _____________________________________________ .
9 The businessman was very rich. I saw him last night. ___________________________________________ .
2. The plane in __________ he was travelling was about to land in Zurich, Switzerland.
3. The woman ________ was sitting next to him had just fastened her seat-belt.
4. She looked for a moment at Jack, ___________ was staring out of the window.
5. There was something about him ________ reminded her of another man she had once known.
6. His face, ________ was turned away from her at the moment, looked exhausted.
7. The woman, ______ was a well-known actress, had hardly spoken to Jack during the trip.
8. Jack was staring at the city below ________ stretched for miles and miles, as far as the eye could see.
Choose one of the following relative pronouns who, which or whose from the dropdown
menu.
1) I talked to the girl ______ car had broken down in front of the shop.
5) That's Peter, the boy ________ has just arrived at the airport.
6) Thank you very much for your e-mail __________ was very interesting.
8) The children, ________ shouted in the street, are not from our school.
10) What did you do with the money ________ your mother lent you?
The paper-eater
Read the text, and fill in the gaps in the exercise using: that, what, when, where, which, who, whose
Did you ever hear about the man ______ eats paper? This is a true story ______ took place in Australia from
_______ I heard. It's the story of a man ______ suffers from some sort of disease_______ makes him crave
cellulose, _________ is the material paper is made of.
He used to eat newspapers, ______ was all he could get, until his wife decided that it would be better if
she made paper for him (so he wouldn't have to eat the ink ________ covers newspapers, you know). She didn't
want to be known as the woman ______ husband was obliged to eat inky newspapers because he had no kind
person to make newsprint for him.
His wife is a woman _______ loves a joke, so she makes him paper _______ has all sorts of exotic
flavours. So, now he only eats the paper ______ his wife makes and only eats ordinary newspapers _______
he is travelling, for instance _________ he is in New York.
He likes to visit New York, because it is ________ the newspapers are the thickest. He is happiest on Sunday,
_______ he is in New York, because that is _______ the newspapers are really thick. Thick newspapers, for
him, are like a banquet at an excellent restaurant.
Join together each of the following pairs of sentences by means of a relative pronoun.