Exercise 1: Combine the sentences, using the relative words.
1) Do you know the woman? She is coming toward us.
2) The road is very narrow. It joins the two villages.
3) Most of the goods are exported. They are made in this factory.
4) Kuala Lumpur is a major trade center in Southeast Asia. It is the capital city of Malaysia.
5) All students will fail in the exam. They don't hand in their papers.
6) Some of the people can't come. They have been invited to the party.
7) English has an alphabet that consists of 26 letters.
8) Hiroko was born in Sapporo. It is a city in Japan.
9) She doesn't want to speak to the person. She divorced her husband for this reason.
10) Tom has three sisters. All of them are married.
11) Last month, I went back to the village. I was born in this village 30 years ago.
12) Jane failed the exam. This made her parents very depressed.
13) My sister was looking after a dog. Its leg had been broken.
Exercise 2: Change the relative clauses to phrases (sentences 1 ➝ 8)
Exercise 1: Combine the sentences, using the relative words.
1) Do you know the woman? She is coming toward us.
Do you know the woman coming toward us?
2) The road is very narrow. It joins the two villages.
The road joining the two villages is very narrow.
3) Most of the goods are exported. They are made in this factory.
Most of the goods made in this factory are exported.4) Kuala Lumpur is a major trade center in Southeast Asia. It is the capital city of Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur, which is the capital city of Malaysia is a major trade center in Southeast Asia
5) All students will fail in the exam. They don't hand in their papers.
All students who don't hand in their papers will fail in the exam
6) Some of the people can't come. They have been invited to the party.
Some of the people invited to the party can't come .
7) English has an alphabet that consists of 26 letters.
English has an alphabet which consists of 26 letters.
8) Hiroko was born in Sapporo. It is a city in Japan.
Hiroko was born in Sapporo,which is a city in Japan.
9) She doesn't want to speak to the person. She divorced her husband for this reason.
She doesn't want to speak to the person the reason why she divorced her husband
10) Tom has three sisters. All of them are married.
Tom has three sisters who are married.
11) Last month, I went back to the village. I was born in this village 30 years ago.
Last month, I went back to the village where I was born 30 years ago.
12) Jane failed the exam. This made her parents very depressed.
Jane failed the exam that made her parents very depressed.
13) My sister was looking after a dog. Its leg had been broken.
My sister was looking after a dog whose leg had been broken.
