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The key answer of exercise Grammar 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 07 - Language focus 1 for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

  1. The phrases in the box above are relative clauses. Underline the relative pronoun in each phrase.
  2. In which of the sentences below can the relative pronoun be omitted? Why?
  3. Only one relative pronoun in the box above can be omitted from the news stories. Which one?

Answer

  1. The relative pronouns are which, that, who, where and when.
  2. The relative pronoun can be omitted in the second sentence because which is the object of the relative clause.
  3. ... over the two weeks (that) it is held.