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Mid-Term Test Name 1.Fill the blanks with relative pronouns if necessary. 1.
Can you remember the girl_____________showed you the way? 2. The dog____________we heard last night is a bulldog. 3. The friends____________you are living with phoned you yesterday. 4. The money_____________we spend on magazines should be spent on books. 5. The doctor_____________visited your mother is very famous. 6. Where is the library____________you borrowed those books from? 7. People_____________live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. 8. The street_____________leads to the school is being repaired. 9. Here is the man___________dog bit you. 10.I know somebody____________lives in the town where you were born. 2.Combine each of these pairs of sentences so that the second becomes a non-defining relative clause. 1. Our television set is always making funny noises. It cost us a lot of money. 2. Mr. Green is going to retire. His students like him very much. 3. A history of the town will be published soon. People know nothing about it. 4. Picasso is known all over the world now. His paintings were not understood at first. 5. The final exams happened to be very easy. I feared them too much. 6. I'm going to visit Brazil. I don't know anything at all about it. 7. The storm damaged the lorry. Its driver is a friend of mine. 8. We couldn't climb that mountain. Its summit is always covered with snow. 9. Juan speaks English very well. His mother is Swedish. 10. Their story sounds incredible. It is true. 11. My uncle Tom will be arriving tomorrow. You've heard so much about him. 12. Sardines are very nourishing. They are cheap. 13. I met Arthur Jones. His book on sports sells very well. 14. John did most of the work. He is very clever. 15. Valery came home yesterday. It was a pleasant surprise. 3.Join the sentences using the correct relative pronoun. Use commas where necessary. 1. The lawyer has one foot in the grave. He worked for my father twenty years ago.
2. We are going through a crisis. In this crisis, many employers will have to close down. 3. They married her daughter to a man. He was twice her age and very wealthy. 4. The man was an old crock. They married her daughter to him. 5. The woman is an ardent feminist. Her husband is a member of the golf club. 6. My grandmother is very old. She suffers from senile dementia. 7. Her sister always gets out of bed on the wrong side. Hes very fond of her. 8. Margaret was madly in love with him. She did not want to tell the truth. 9. Susie is a friend of my daughters. Shes swinging on the old rope. 10. The people next door very often go to posh restaurants. They come from well-to-do families. 11. Her father gave her a lecture about the importance of getting home early. He didnt want her daughter to arrive home late. 12. The little girls are my nieces. Theyre riding on the swings. 13. The man is forty years of age. He runs this company. 14. Mrs Brown has a crick in the neck. She hasnt come to work today. 15. I saw several paintings and sculptures by Michelangelo. All of them were superb. 4. Join the following sentences to make one sentence using a relative pronoun when necessary. If the relative pronoun is unnecessary, put it in brackets. You may sometimes have to change the word order or change 'a' into 'the'. Write if the sentences are DEFINING or NON-DEFINING. 1. There's the boy. He broke the window. 2. The film star gave a party. It cost $10,000. 3. That's the palace. The Queen lives in it. 4. You met a man at the party. He is a famous film star. The man... 5. My friend came to the party. He's a policeman. 6. There are the policemen. They caught the thief. 7. What's the name of the lady? She was wearing the blue dress.
8. I gave her a watch. It stopped after two days. 9. My car was very expensive. It's a Mercedes. 10. You're reading a book. I wanted to read it. 11. The Red Lion is a pub. We met in it for a drink. 12. There's someone at the door. He wants to speak to George. 13. Here are the letters. They arrived this morning. 14. I met Mr Da Silva. He is President of Brazil. 15. It's very spicy food. I don't like it. 16. That's the house. I was born in it. 17. That's the dictionary. Bill gave it to me for Christmas. 18. Where is the lady? She ordered fish. 19. Those are the cars. They only take unleaded petrol. 20. The children went to New York. They speak English. 5. Add commas only where needed. 1. Not all artists who become famous have spent years studying. 2. Anna Robertson Moses who was also known as Grandma Moses is considered the Grande Dame of U.S. art. 3. Grandma Moses who started painting when she was seventy-six never had an art lesson. 4. Her realistic and simple scenes depicting American rural life have been praised by critics and spectators alike. 5. These colorful pictures which are called primitives are based on her early life in rural New York. 6. She began to paint at a time when her arthritis made her pastime of embroidering too painful. 7. This energetic woman who lived to be 101 continued to create works of wonder and charm until shortly before her death. 8. Grandma Moses who painted without any formal training remains one of the twentieth centurys most famous primitive artists.

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