Reduced Clause Exercise

Hermanto
Exercise 1: Change the adjective clause into adjective phrase

1. Do you know the woman who is coming

toward us?
2. The scientists who are researching the effects
of global warming are making progress.
3. The fence which is in the front of our house is
made of wood.
4. They live in a house that was built in 1890.
5. Dr. Ronn, who is the president of the college,
will give a welcome speech.
Exercise 2: Change the adjective clause into adjective phrase

1. The psychologists who study the nature of

sleep have made important discoveries.
2. Pictures that showed the brutality of war
entered the living rooms of TV watchers.
3. The students who hope to enter university
must prepare themselves well.
4. We stay in a hotel which overlooks the beach.
5. The children who attend the school receive a
good education.
 Exercise 3: Change the adjective phrase into
adjective clause
1. Corn was one of the agricultural products introduced to
the European settlers by the Indians.
2. He read The Old Man and the Sea, a novel written by
Ernest Hemingway.
3. The sunlight coming through the window wakes me up
early every morning.
4. Mercury, the nearest planet to the sun, is also the
smallest of the nine planets orbiting the sun.
5. The pyramids, the monumental tombs of ancient
Egyptians pharaohs, were constructed from 3000 to
1800 B.C.
Exercise 4: Change the adverb clause into adverb phrase
1. Before I talk to you, I had never understood the
formula.
2. Because he didn’t want to spend any more money,
Tom cooked the food himself.
3. After I read the chapter three times, I finally
understood the theory.
4. Since he completed his Bachelor’s degree, he has
had three jobs.
5. While I was travelling in foreign countries, I found
new interesting cultures of different people living
there.
 Exercise 6. Change the sub-clauses into phrases
1. There is almost no end to the problems that face the head of the state.
2. Before the students came to the class, the teacher had already given a
quiz.
3. Since Harry entered the Institute of Technology, he began to feel
confident about his future.
4. Two languages are spoken in Helsinki which is the capital of Finland.
5. She comes from a city which is located in the southern part of the
country.
6. After Sofie completed her shopping, she went home.
7. The people who are waiting for the bus in the rain are getting
wet.
8. Alex hurt his back while he was playing football.
9. While I was trying to sleep last night, a mosquito kept buzzing in
my ear.
10. She comes from Venezuela that is a Spanish-speaking country.