Cover of the textbook Performer B1, Vol. 2

The key answer of exercise 32

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Workbook 2 - Your money for the textbook Performer B1, Vol. 2 with authors Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella e Margaret Layton from Zanichelli

Question

Look at the grammar map and fill in the blanks in the boxes below.

Answer

DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

USE

To add essential information to a phrase

WHO / WHOM / THAT

People

  • She is the girl who / that lent me £10 yesterday. → subject
  • The girl (whom / that) you met at the party is Tom's girlfriend. → object
  • The person (who / whom / that) I was talking about is coming. → object

WHICH / THAT

Things

  • That is the museum which / that is in front of the Millennium Bridge. → subject
  • The book (which / that) I borrowed from you is on the table. → subject
  • This is the smartphone (which / that) I've bought. → object

WHOSE

Possession

  • That's the boy whose horse won an important race.
  • The man (whose) car broke down is waiting for a tow truck.

WHERE

Places

  • There are places where you always feel at home.
  • This is the city where I grew up.

WHO / WHOM / THAT - WHICH / THAT

  • If the relative pronoun is followed by a verb, it is a subject pronoun. You cannot omit it. - Example: The actor who won the Oscar was very famous.
  • You can omit object pronouns. - Example: The people (who / that / whom) I met this morning are very friendly.
  • In informal speech, when the verb in the relative clause needs a preposition, we can omit the relative pronoun, and we put the preposition at the end of the relative clause. - Example: The restaurant I was talking about is the one we went to last night.