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The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - Home from home for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Check what you know. Look at comments 1 and 2 in Exercise 6 and underline the relative clauses. Which relative clauses is defining (gives essential information)? Which is non-defining (adds extra information)? Which uses a comma?
  2. Underline the relative clauses in comments 3-6. Are they defining or non-defining?
  3. Match descriptions a)-f) with the relative clauses in Exercise 6.
  4. Work in pairs and answer the questions.

Answer

a) - b)

  1. who work at home (defining)
  2. none of which mattered (non-defining)
  3. anywhere I can put my feet up and let my hair down (defining)
  4. at which point I knew we needed an office (non-defining)
  5. on which I drew marks to show my children getting taller (defining)
  6. those whose major characteristic is brightness (defining)

Non-defining relative clauses use a comma.

c)

  1. 5
  2. 6
  3. 4
  4. 2
  5. 3
  6. 1

d)

  1. defining
  2. where / that
  3. b)