ADJECTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES

1) Combine the clauses in order to form a complex sentence with an embedded relative clause.
Example: I saw the man. He closed the door. I saw the man who/that closed the door.
a) The girl is happy. She won the race earlier today.
b) The students are from China. They sit in the front row.
c) We are studying sentences. They contain adjective clauses.
d) Algebra problems contain letters. They stand for unknown numbers.
e) I liked the student from India. I met her at the party last week.
f) The people were very nice. We all visited them yesterday.
g) The old man in that farm was very kind. I talked to him for hours.
h) The guy is standing over there. I was talking to you about him.
i) I met the lady. Her husband is the president of the corporation.
j) The girl came to the meeting. I dont remember her name.
k) The man poured a glass of water on his face. His beard caught on fire when he lit a cigar.
l) The doctor was very gentle. She examined the sick child very carefully.
m) Did I tell you about the woman? I met her last night.
n) The scientist is well-known for her research. She is coming to UFBA to present a seminar on gender
issues.
o) The students missed the assignment. They had been absent from class.
p) Yesterday I ran into an old friend. I hadnt seen her for ages!
q) The lecturer gave me good advice about my research project. I spoke to him.
r) The city was beautiful. We spent our vacation there.
s) The girl stepped on your toe. Did she apologize?
t) Nietzsche divided people into two categories, leaders and followers. He wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
u) I looked everywhere but I couldnt find Anderson. He was supposed to be at the departments office.
v) The Mississippi River is the major commercial river in the United States. It flows from Minnesota to
the Gulf of Mexico.
w) Goats have provided people with milk, meat and wool since prehistoric times. They were first tamed
more than 9,000 years ago in Asia.
x) Hamlet is the most well-known of Shakespeares tragedies. It has been staged many times over the
centuries.
y) The city has sicteen schools. Two of them are junior colleges.
z) They own an original Picasso painting. Its value is over a million dollars.
2) Find the errors in the following sentences and correct them.
a) It is important to be polite to people who lives in the same building.
b) She lives in a hotel is restricted to senior citizens.
c) My sister has two children, who their names are Bruno and Bianca.
d) He comes from Venezuela which that is a country in South America.
e) We would like to write about several problems which we have been facing them since we started to
have classes at PAF III.
f) It is almost impossible to find two persons who their opinions are the same.
g) On the wall, there is a colorful poster consists of a group of young people who dancing.
h) He read The Old Man and the Sea who is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway.
i) The children were asked to describe the things what they saw.
j) Ice skating is the only sport in which I am interested in it.
k) A myth is a story whose expresses traditional beliefs.
l) Hiroko was born in Sapporo that is a city in Japan.