Level
6 Unit 4 -
Relative clauses:
Which pronouns to use.
Select the correct answers from the choices given.
NB There may be more than one correct answer. Click on ALL which seem correct.
Pronouns in defining relative clauses
There is no percentage score for this exercise because the question is so complicated!
Please read the comments when you check your answers and try to get a "feel" for the sentences which are "correct" (sometimes, as when "who" is used instead of "whom", grammatically incorrect).
"That", for instance is difficult to judge on and yet it is so frequently used in modern English. It is perhaps worth noting that it is better only used in cases where the person or persons concerned are not personal:
All the people who live round here work in the car industry. Most people who(m) I asked were against the project. No-one that I know speaks Greek.
"That" may well be heard in examples like the above, in informal contexts, more frequently in object cases like the second example and with words using "any", and "some".
The practical solution (in object cases) is almost certainly to omit the pronoun completely.
N.B. Don't expect your teacher to agree with all the answers; none of the teachers (whom? who?, that?) I have consulted agree with me or with each other on the subject of pronouns in relative clauses!
The man __________ I sold my car to has already crashed it.
The pheasant __________ Peter shot was delicious.
The friends __________ I went to see have a lovely thatched cottage.
Look. There's the girl __________ you wanted to get a date with!
The Alfa is the fastest car __________ I have ever driven.
Clooney is the actor __________ made all those coffee adverts everyone liked so much.
Le Carre wrote " The Spy __________ came in from the cold."
Gould wrote some of the most interesting books on biology __________ I have read.
Janet liked everything __________ she saw in Tiffany's.
Nobody __________ I spoke to could give me directions to the theatre.
The applicant __________ got the job was a graduate of Harvard.
The tax increase __________ is being proposed will meet a lot of opposition.
Wait till I find out __________ put salt in my coffee!
Wasn't it Fulton __________ invented the submarine?