Step 5 - Grammar

Grammar
Let's look at relative clauses.

KBRelative clauses

Complete the grammar rule. Underline the correct option.
Sometimes you can choose more than one.

  1. We use who when we are talking about places/people/things.
  2. We use which or that when we are talking about places/people/things.
  3. We use whose when we are giving more information about people/places/things.
  4. We use where when we are talking about people/places/ things.

Complete the sentences with who/which/that/where or whose.
Sometimes more than one is possible.

In this exercise you match the sentences halves.

I know a restaurant that you catch every day?
Is this the bus ended quite early.
The party that we went to where we can eat really cheaply.
What’s the name of the girl has great information about cheap hotels.
A pacifist is a person whose pen you borrowed?
This guide book, which has a map, who doesn’t believe in war.
After our argument, Joan sent me a text,

which I thought was kind.


Commas!
Look at the Grammar Desk about non-defining and defining clauses.

KBRelative clauses

In the next exercise you tick the rules in the correct column.

Exercise: Non-defining or Defining

In the next sentences tick in commas if necessary.

Sentences Add commas if necessary
The actor is now playing a man whose wife died in childbirth.  
My eldest daughter whose boyfriend works for a clothing company is on holiday in Japan at the moment.  
The shirt which is a beautiful colour only cost me €15.  
They’re the new students who are joining our class next week.  
The book which was written by M. Santos was first published in 1821.  
She gave me my essay which had been corrected.  
My grandmother who is 91 walks her dog every day.  
You can borrow the pen that has my name on it.