Class 12 English Unit 16: Grammar: Relative Clauses Langauge Development Section

 

Grammar: RelativeClauses ( page 137)

Link for Relative clause:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j25CFx-4g0I&t=295s

A.   Study the following sentences and underline the relative clauses.

a.      I snatched a minute when things had released a minute.

b.     Instead of going straight into the adjoining room, where her desk was, she lingered slightly irresolute in the outer office.

c.      She was beautiful in a way that was decidedly stenographic.

B.    Fill in the blanks with suitable relative pronouns: who, which, that, whom, whose, where, why, how, what or when.

a.      There is a lady whose wallet has been stolen.

b.     Do you know the man who sold these glasses?

c.      The knife with which you cut the bread is very sharp.

d.     Why do you blame him for everything that goes wrong?

e.      A cemetery is a place where dead bodies are buried.

f.       This school is for those children whose mother tongue is not Nepali.

g.     I don’t know the name of the person whom I spoke with over the telephone.

h.     I came to Kathmandu on the day when the devastating earthquake took place.

i.       In the application form, she wrote when she needed a good payment.

j.       The pilot explained why he made a forced landing on the road.

C.    Join the following pairs of sentences using who, which, that, whose, whom, where, when or what.

( which or that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apBUEsF7mrw

a.      The building was destroyed in the fire. It has now been rebuilt.

The building, which has now been rebuilt, was destroyed in the fire.

b.     A new cricket stadium is being made in Chitwan. It can accommodate one hundred thousand people.

A new cricket stadium, which can accommodate one hundred thousand people, is being made in Chitwan.

c.      Shanghai is the most populated city in the world. I stayed there for five years.

Shanghai, where I stayed for five years, is the most populated city in the world.

d.     This is the man. I gave some money to him this morning.

This is the man to whom I gave some money this morning.

e.      Do know the man? His son was awarded in the school yesterday.

Do know the man whose son was awarded in the school yesterday.

f.       His stepmother was not very kind to him. He had been staying with her.

His stepmother, with whom he had been staying, was not very kind to him.  

g.     He can never forget Nakkhu Jail. He had spent 14 years there.

He can never forget Nakkhu jail where he had spent 14 years.

h.     He showed me his new tab. He had paid a hundred thousand rupees for it.

He showed me his new tab for which he had paid a hundred thousand rupees.

i.       Nelson Mandela joined ANC in the 1930s. He was a student then.

Nelson Mandela joined ANC in the 1930s when he was a student.

j.       She forgot to buy the things. Her mother had told her to buy them.

She forgot to buy the things that her mother had told her to buy.

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