RELATIVE CLAUSES WHOSE/WHOM/WHERE

1. You met these people at a party ;

1) I met somebody whose mother writes detective stories .

2) I met a man __________________________________________ .
3) I met a woman ________________________________________.
4) I met somebody _______________________________________.Complete the sentences.

I can buy some postcards there I was born there

Ann bought a dress there we can have a really good meal there
John is staying there we had the car repaired there
Use the sentences in the box to make relative clauses with where.
5) I met a couple _________________________________________.
6) I met somebody _______________________________________.
7)
1) I recently went back to the town where I was born .
2) Do you know a restaurant _________________________________________________?
3) Is there a shop near here __________________________________________________?
4) I can’t remember the name of the garage _____________________________________.
5) Do you know the name of the hotel _________________________________________?
6) Ann bought a dress which didn’t fit her, so she took it back to the shop_____________.

2. Complete each sentence using who/whom/whose/where.

1) What’s the name of the man ______________ car you borrowed ?
2) A cemetery is a place _____________________people are buried.
3) A pacifist is a person ______________________believes that all wars are wrong.
4) An orphan is a child _______________________parents are dead.
5) The place _____________we spent our holidays was really beautiful.
6) This school is only for children ______________ first language is not English.
7) I don’t know the name of the woman to _______I spoke on the phone.
3. Use your own ideas to complete these sentences. They are like the ones in Sections D and E.
1) I’ll always remember the day I first met you
2) I’ll never forget the time ______________________________________________________.
3) The reason ____________________________________was that I didn’t know your address.
4) Unfortunately I wasn’t at home the evening _______________________________________.
5) The reason __________________________________________ is that they don’t need one.
6) 1898 was the year ___________________________________________________________.

4. Complete the chart with the correct form of the verb.

VERB PAST TENSE PAST PARTICIPLE

WAKE UP WOKE UP WOKEN UP
LEAVE
START
GOT
MET
SHOWER

5. Match the problems with the excuses.

PROBLEM
1. You didn’t do your homework
2. You were late for school
3. You didn’t call your parents from your
friend’s house
4. You didn’t get the shopping for your mom
5. You forgot to prepare supper for your
friend
6. You didn’t e-mail your assigntment to your
teacher
EXCUSE
a. After I got to the Internet Café, I realize I
hadn’t brought the memory stick
b. By the time I arrived, the shop had already
closed.
c. When I got to the bus stop, I realized I had
left my bus pass at home
d. I suddenly remembered at 8.00 that I
hadn’t switch on the room
e. When I got home, I discovered I had left my
books at school
f. By the time I realized I hadn’t phoned you it
was too late.

6. Complete the sentences with words from the box below. Then number the sentences to make
a conversation.
Hadn’t cooked. ___ And then I (1) ________ my brother had taken my bicycle.
Discovered ___ my mom does that all the time!
Came ___ So, did you (2) ______ ?
Had forgotten ___ What a day! Everything went wrong. When I got home, my mom
Told ____________ lunch.
Hadn’t washed ___ Yes. And when I got off the bus, I remembered I (5) _________
Happened my soccer boots. I’m sorry. No soccer today, I’m afraid.
Eat ___ Yes, but I had to wait an hour. Then she (6) ________ me she (7)
__________ my soccer uniform.
___ You’re late. What (8) ___________ ?