General English Level 5 GELEV5 Unit 02 Topic 04.doc  WRITING 04 Relative clauses Now practise using relative clauses. 1. Look at the main clauses on the left. 2. Look at the words on the right. 3. Join the clauses and the words to make sentences. 4. Think about: • which pronoun to use - that, which or who. • where to put the relative clause. • what punctuation to use. Here is an example My sister is a lawyer. / lives in New York. My sister, who is a lawyer, lives in New York. or My sister, who lives in New York, is a lawyer. 1. I am studying English. /is an international language _______________________________________________________ 2. It is important to preserve forests. /give us clean air _______________________________________________________ 3. The students are from many different countries. /study at this school ________________________________________________________ 4. The topic was very interesting. /we studied last week ________________________________________________________ 5. Lee was at the wedding. /was held in an old church _________________________________________________________ 6. Sophie and Jenny live in the same suburb. /have known each other since 1991 _________________________________________________________ 7. LANGUAGE FOCUS is sometimes boring. /means the rules of a language _________________________________________________________ 8. The man has left. /was standing there _________________________________________________________ 9. My teacher is very good. /has taught me for six months now ________________________________________________________ 10. The book has been stolen. /I borrowed from the library _________________________________________________________ 74 QUESTLANGUAGE