B) Join the following sentences using the appropriate relative.

1. This is the motorbike. I repaired it myself.

2. Mr Smith owns a company. He’s a successful businessman.

3. I’m afraid of water. That’s why I never swim in the sea.

4. The boy broke the window. He said he was sorry.

5. Paris is the city. The French built it for the world. London is the city. The English built it for themselves.

6. The best time to go shopping is in the morning. The shops are not busy then.

7. He lent me some money. That was very kind of him.

8. Michael lives next door to me. He is an architect.

9. This is the suit. I bought it last week. It doesn’t fit me.

10. A cynic is a person. He knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. (O. Wilde).

11. Growling in the corner were two big dogs. They both looked extremely dangerous.

12. The manager called in my new colleagues. I had met one or two of them already.

13. There were several large holes in the road. Three of them had to be repaired urgently.

14. There were some vegetables left over. I was able to use a few of them in some soup for supper.

15. The lectures were attended by over two hundred students. Few of them completed the assignments set by the professor.

16. The researchers reported back on the questionnaires. The most interesting ones showed a marked change in leisure habits among older people.

17. The woman lives next door. She bought an Old English sheepdog. It barks all night.

18. We rented a cottage from a man. He has written a novel. The novel has become a bestseller.

19. The zoo's most famous giant panda has died. Its name was Chi-Chi.

20. I told you about a record. The record will be released next week. It has been produced by a completely new method.

Exercise 8. a) In the following sentences there are mistakes in the relative clauses. Find them and correct.

1. A man to whom I was talking to recently told me a joke, which was very funny, but that I have unfortunately forgotten.

2. Our director for who’s job I applied when the previous director left, has announced that the pay rise, which we asked for, has had to be postponed, that really upset us.

3. The actress Joan Kelly whose most famous film was One for the Road for that she won an Oscar award, has died at the age of 77 at her home in California, in which she had lived for the last 25 years.

4. This morning, I got a cheque in the post that I wasn’t expecting, for some work, which I did a long time ago, translating business texts.

5. Lord Brown on whom many people look as the best prime minister of the century and who’s memoirs that were published last year caused a scandal, got married to a woman, who he first met 55 years ago, when they were at school together.

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