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Grammar and StructureGRAMMAR & STRUCTURE — Exercises
Adjective Clauses

 
 

Answer the following questions to check your knowledge of adjective clauses.

Example

Which sentence has an adjective clause?
We are meeting at a restaurant that has great oyster burgers.
We are meeting at a restaurant to eat oyster burgers.

The correct answer is "We are meeting at a restaurant that has great oyster burgers."


1.

Which sentence has an adjective clause?

 

The student went to the library when he finished the test.

 

The student went to the library where he met his friends.

     
2.

Which sentence has an adjective clause?

 

The child who is learning to play the piano was in a concert.

 

The child has played the piano since he was in a concert.

     
3.

Which sentence has an adjective clause?

 

Whose book is this?

 

Do you know whose book this is?

     
Identify the adjective clause in the following three sentences.
     
4.

The child who is sitting in the swing is called Samuel.

 

The child who is sitting

 

The child is called Samuel

 

who is sitting in the swing

     
5.

I remember the day when I saw the ocean for the first time.

 

I remember the day

 

when I saw the ocean for the first time

 

I remember the day for the first time

     
6.

I don't know whose computer this is.

 

I don't know whose

 

whose computer this is

 

I don't know

     
7.

Which sentence is correctly punctuated?

 

The novel that I read last night was very boring.

 

The novel, that I read last night, was very boring.

     
Identify the correct function of the relative pronouns in the following sentences.
     
8.

The song that the teenager wrote was very touching.

 

subject of the verb

 

object of the verb

 

object of the preposition

     
9.

The bicycle which is locked in my driveway belongs to my sister.

 

subject of the verb

 

object of the verb

 

object of the preposition

     
10.

The man whom I bought my new car from is my sister's brother-in-law.

 

subject of the verb

 

object of the verb

 

object of the preposition