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Answer for exercise Grammar 1

The solution for exercise Grammar 1 in chapter 07 - Language focus 1 of Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book by Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave

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.