Grammar sense book 3 chapter 14 relative clauses (2) exercises

CHAPTER TEST

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Relative Clauses with Object Relative Pronouns

PART I. Choose the best answer to complete each sentence.
1. Do you know anything about the new
requirements
?
a. that announced
b. that they announced
c. they announced them
d. that they announced them
2. Have you ever seen the building
to live?
a. where
b. in
c. that
d. which

4. They spoke
who they knew from work.
a. very excitedly
b. about a problem
c. once a week
d. to a customer
we used

3. Unlike most Greek plays, the plays Euripides wrote
about common people instead of gods

and goddesses.
a. he’s
b. them
c. they’re
d. were

5. A keen sense of smell and acute hearing are
abilities
when they were hunters in the
wild.
a. dogs must have needed them
b. that dogs must have needed
c. who dogs must have needed
d. with which dogs must have needed
6. She finally met Mr. Reilly,
a. she spoke to
b. that she spoke to
c. to whom she spoke
d. she spoke to him

for a long time.

PART II. Find the error in each sentence and correct it.
7. The dictionary we looked in it doesn’t have recently coined words.
8. At the end of the summer, they started to renovate the building she works.
9. This is the only notification, that you will receive from this organization.
10. My friend Jeff, I met in college, works as a congressional aide in Washington, D.C.
11. The people we collaborate with in Maine works at a marine lab.
12. The woman whom I worked gave me a very positive letter of recommendation.
13. He didn’t meet the people with he was sharing an apartment until he arrived last Monday.

14. Can you remember the time where the fire alarm went off in the middle of the night?

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PART III. Choose the best answer to complete each conversation.
15. A: A man I know won the lottery.

18. A: Which of these jackets do you want to buy?
B:

B:

a. I want to buy a jacket.
b. A jacket.
c. The one you like.

a. That’s too bad.
b. He’s lucky.
c. Do you know him?
16. A: Did you read the letter I sent you?

19. A: Please tell me which is your suitcase.
B:

B:

a. What did you send me?
b. Who did you send it to?
c. Yes, but why didn’t you call me?
17. A: The book she ordered hasn’t arrived.
B:

20. A: I ran into a man I used to work with.
B:

a. When did she order it?
b. Why hasn’t she arrived?
c. Who ordered the book?
Total

a. Mine, which I just bought.
b. Mine is the red one.
c. It’s my suitcase.

a. Did he recognize you?
b. Did you work with him?
c. Did he work with you?

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Thinking Ahead to the TOEFL®Test
Relative clauses with object relative pronouns are often tested in the Structure section of the
TOEFL® test. Here is a typical example:
Vancouver is a city
amenities.
A. tourists flock to

B. to which tourists
C. to whom tourists flock
D. tourists flock to it

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Answer Key

PART I
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

b
a
d

d
b
c

PART II
7. The dictionary we looked in it doesn’t have recently coined words.

in

8. At the end of the summer, they started to renovate the building she works . / At the end of
in which
the summer, they started to renovate the building she works.
9. This is the only notification, that you will receive from this organization.

who/whom

10. My friend Jeff, I met in college, works as a congressional aide in Washington, D.C.

work

11. The people we collaborate with in Maine works at a marine lab.

for

12. The woman whom I worked gave me a very positive letter of recommendation. / The
for
woman whom I worked gave me a very positive letter of recommendation.
13. He didn’t meet the people with he was sharing an apartment until he arrived last Monday. /
whom
He didn’t meet the people with he was sharing an apartment until he arrived last Monday.

when/t hat /during which/Ø

14. Can you remember the time where the fire alarm went off in the middle of the night?

PART III
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

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b
c
a
c
b
a

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