The document provides examples of rewriting sentences in a more informal way by omitting relative pronouns and joining sentences together using relative pronouns. For the first section, the responses rewrite the sentences without the relative pronouns. For the second section, the responses join the sentences together using relative pronouns and commas.
The document provides examples of rewriting sentences in a more informal way by omitting relative pronouns and joining sentences together using relative pronouns. For the first section, the responses rewrite the sentences without the relative pronouns. For the second section, the responses join the sentences together using relative pronouns and commas.
The document provides examples of rewriting sentences in a more informal way by omitting relative pronouns and joining sentences together using relative pronouns. For the first section, the responses rewrite the sentences without the relative pronouns. For the second section, the responses join the sentences together using relative pronouns and commas.
REWRITE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES IN A MORE INFORMAL WAY BY OMITTING THE
RELATIVE PRONOUN
1. Alan Graham is the teacher from whom I’ve learnt most.
_______________________________________________________________ 2. He is someone for whom I have the greatest respect. _______________________________________________________________ 3. We admire people to whom we owe a lot. _______________________________________________________________ 4. Especially if it is a person with whom we enjoy working. _______________________________________________________________ 5. But you don’t always work with people for whom you feel admiration. _______________________________________________________________ 6. And now here is the person for whom we all have been waiting. _______________________________________________________________ 7. He is the man to whom I am pleased to present the Teacher of the Year Award
JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES BY MEANS OF A RELATIVE PRONOUN. Use
commas.
1. Catherine is very friendly. She lives next door.
__________________________________________________________________ 2. We stayed at the Park Hotel. A friend of ours recommended us. ___________________________________________________________________ 3. We often go to visit our friends in Cambridge. It is not far from London. __________________________________________________________________ 4. I went to see the doctor. She told me I needed to change my diet. _________________________________________________________________ 5. Steven is one of my closest friends. I’ve known him for a very long time. _________________________________________________________________ 6. Lisa is away from home a lot. Her job involves a lot of travelling. __________________________________________________________________ 7. The new stadium will be finished next month. It can hold 90,000 people _________________________________________________________________ 8. Alaska is the largest state in the USA. My brother lives there. _________________________________________________________________