Writing Better English for ESL Learners

19. I have a taste for something. Something is cool and refreshing.


20. Let’s try on the skirt. The skirt has fewer pleats.

Exercise 1.25Restate each relative clause that follows as an ellipticalrelative

clause.

This is the coat that I found. This is the coat I found.

1. She agreed to buy the car that I saw in the city.


2. Do you have the money that I lent you?


3. Where’s the lamp that I put on this table?


4. That’s the fellow that I got the tickets from.


5. Tom got a job in the factory in which my father works.


6. Where did you find the books which I lost?

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