EXERCISE 17. Review: adjective clauses. (Charts 12-1 - 12-6)
Directions: Work in pairs.
Speaker A: Read the cue aloud to your partner.
Speaker B: Combine the sentences, using the second sentence as an adjective clause.
Practice omitting the object pronoun (whom, which, that). Look at your book
only if necessary.
Speaker A: If Speaker B's information is correct, respond with "yes" and repeat the
information.
Example:
SPEAKER A: The taxi was expensive. I took it to the airport.
SPEAKER B: The taxi you took to the airport was expensive.
SPEAKER A: Yes. The taxi I took to the airport was expensive.
- The plane leaves at 7:08 P.M. I'm taking it to Denver.
- The university is in NewYork. I want to go to it.
'.. ;! 3. I met the people. You told me about them.
, :. 4. The bananas were too ripe. My husbandwife bought them.
- The shirdblouse is made of cotton. The teacher is wearing it.
..,.,.; 6. The market has fresh vegetables. I usually go to it.
, Switch roles.
- 1 couldn't understand the woman. I talked to her on the phone.
- The scrambled eggs were cold. I had them for breakfast at the cafeteria,
- I had a good time on the trip. I took it to Hawaii.
- The doctor prescribed some medicine for my sore throat. I went to him yesterday.
- The cream was spoiled. I put it in my coffee.
- The fast-forward button on the tape recorder doesn't work. I bought it last month.
- I'm going to call about the want ad. I saw it in last night's paper.
EXERCISE 18. Review: adjective clauses. (Charts 12-1 -t 12-6)
Directions: Underline the adjective clauses in the following passages. Circle the nouns that
the adjective clauses modify.
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- Frogs are small, tailless -.
- Flowers that bloom year after year are called perennials. Flowers that bloom only one
season are called annuals.
- Flamingos are large pink birds that have long legs and curved bills.
- A fossil is the remains of an animal or plant that lived in the past.
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