Grammar 8

TASK 1

Which sentence matches which situation given below?

SENTENCES

^ 1 The passengers, who checked in early, had a long wait at the airport.    ^{1 Lx} 1

4r 2 The passengers who checked in early had a long wait at the airport.

SITUATIONS

A Only some passengers checked in early and only those passengers had to wait long, the others did not.

B Ali the passengers checked in early and they all had to wait long at the airport.

TASK 2

There are two types of relative clauses; defining (= restrictive) and non-defining ( = nonrestrictive).

The defining relative clause contains information necessary (!) for identifying who or what we are talking about.

The non-defining relative clause contains additional information about the thing(s) or person\people we are talking about.

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Which sentence in Task 1 contains defining and which non-defining relative clause?

TASK 3    ⁶

Decide which of the relative clauses below are defining and which are non-defining. Insert commas if you think a clause is non-defining.

fj 1. Romę which is the Capital of Italy lies on the Tiber. d 2. My mother who visits me regularly helps look after the children.

\73.Thewoman who does my hair has just had a baby.    ~^Ma

Aj 4. Dorothy who does my hair has just had a baby.

A-5. The giant panda which is to be found in the remote parts of Chiną lives exclusively on bamboo shoots.

fj 6. She married a nice architect from Belfast whom she met on a bus. 0 7. She married a man whom she met on a bus. wUoiw —o t-UaV 8. Have you got a book which is really easy to read? - ^    ^ A

f\ 9.1 lent him The Old Man and the Sea which is really easy to read.

p 10. The book for which you paid five pounds was interesting, not the other one.

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