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115 Living and working together 09 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE LOOK AGAIN EXTRAS Underline all the relative pronouns in the news stories on p. 114. Talk together. Which functions do the pronouns have in the relative clauses (subject, object, showing ownership, referring to a place or time)? Example: ‘Who’ in the first sentence refers to ‘a man’; ‘man’ is the subject of the relative clause. Can you remember the difference between defining and non-defining relative clauses? Circle the correct option to complete the definitions. 1 Defining relative clauses: contain necessary information which cannot / could be left out. You never / have to use commas to separate them from the rest of the sentence. You can / cannot use that instead of who or which . 2 Non-defining relative clauses: contain extra information which cannot / could be left out. You never / have to use commas to separate them from the rest of the sentence. You can / cannot use that instead of who or which . Complete the sentences from the news stories with who , which , whose , where or when . a GRAMMAR 14 Relative pronouns b 15 a 16 Complete the sentences below with the correct relative pronouns. Add commas where necessary. 1 Did you hear Rosa’s neighbour said? 2 I have a friend wife has inherited a lot of money. 3 The streets were slippery the driver had not expected. 4 The car we’d hired broke down after a few kilometres. 5 The road the accident happened has been closed to traffic. 6 What happened to the driver was rescued? 7 Rosa Flores left all her money to the village she lived didn’t have any family. 8 The man I was sitting next to on the plane had witnessed a bank robbery. Look at the sentences together. Say whether the pronoun is used as a subject or object. In which sentences can you replace who or which by that ? In which sentences can you leave out the relative pronoun? b c Person 1 A man rescued a driver from a car … was fired. 2 … said a neighbour a reporter was talking to. 3 He saved a man car had broken through a guard rail. Thing 4 A man … rescued a driver from a car had been driven into Lopez Lake. 5 The villagers were grateful for the legacy they had received. 6 The Mexican village inhabitant Rosa Flores was has become richer thanks to her. Place 7 Other gifts included 200,000 pesos to the local church her husband was buried. Time 8 She wanted to thank people for welcoming her at the time she moved there. Notice the difference between which and what in the following sentences. He was told he no longer had a job, which he could hardly believe. which: the fact he no longer had a job The man would have got what he wanted. what: the thing(s) that Grammar reference and practice, p. 161. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv