English Grammar Exercises: Relative Clauses and Verb Tenses

Workbook Exercises: Relative Clauses and Grammar

Page 50: Relative Clauses

• 1a. Our headteacher is the person who we’ll have to get permission from.
• 1b. Our headteacher is the person from whom we’ll have to get permission.
• 2a. I am having a clothes-swapping party to which I want to invite 15 people.
• 2b. I am having a clothes-swapping party which I want to invite 15 people to.

Sentence Practice

1. These shoes that I bought last week are not comfortable.
2. I begin work at 6:00 pm, when most of my friends are just coming home.
3. The people with whom I had coffee today are my customers.
4. This shop, which opened last year, has become very successful. / This shop, which has become very successful, opened last year.
5. This area, where a lot of young artists once lived, is now very expensive.
6. The company, whose tablets are popular, has also started to make phones.
7. This centre is for needy people who can’t pay for medicine.

Page 55: Grammar Review

Exercise 4

1. could win
2. would spend
3. would … include
4. which / that
5. has invested
6. where
7. will provide
8. who
9. when / that
10. needed to be given

Exercise 5

1. Simon admitted that he had been spending more than he could afford that month.
2. If I needed another pair of shoes, I would buy them.
3. Why is that shop being closed?
4. I’m getting / having my moped repaired tomorrow.
5. I shouldn’t have bought such expensive jeans.
6. Megan, whose parents earn the minimum wage, gets very little pocket money.
7. Unless this brand of shampoo is on sale, I don’t buy it. / I don’t buy this brand of shampoo unless it’s on sale.

Exercise 6

1. If you save 10 a month, you will have a nice amount of money at the end of the year.
2. Our teacher announced that the test was cancelled.
3. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn’t have known.
4. If only you had called me yesterday.
5. I'm exhausted! ... exercising all day.

Student Page 75: Advanced Relative Clauses

Exercise 6

1. Our customers have some complaints to which I’d like to respond.
2. Mary is the boss with whom you have to discuss this issue.
3. The police have found the man to whom this wallet belongs.
4. There is a lottery in which our members can participate.
5. The cashier for whom we were waiting was the slowest one.

Exercise 8

1. Do you like the shirt that I’m trying on now?
2. The corner bakery, which was owned by an old couple, has shut down. / The corner bakery, which has shut down, was owned by an old couple.
3. I bought these sandals last summer, when I was in France.
4. I need a financial advisor on whom I can depend.
5. The camera about which they were arguing was worth €800. / The camera which they were arguing about was worth €800.
6. The woman whose shop had been broken into called the police.
7. I can take you to some shops where clothes are really cheap.
8. In 2008, when the economic crisis began, many Americans lost their homes.