Test your understanding of relative pronouns and relative adverbs with this grammar exercise. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate option.
1This is the house ............... I was born.
Wrong!
Where can mean 'in which' or 'at which'.
2This is the town ............... I spent my childhood.
Wrong!
Where can mean 'in which'.
3This is the town ............... I spent my childhood.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
Where can mean in which. Therefore, the first and the third options are possible here.
4Do you know a shop ............... I can find sports shoes?
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
Where can mean at which
5She got married again a few months later, ............... surprised everybody.
Wrong!
Which can refer to the whole of a previous clause.
6I was impressed by the way ............... she did it.
Wrong!
7We have got everything ............... you ordered.
Wrong!
What means 'the things which'. It cannot be used as an ordinary relative pronoun after a noun or pronoun.
8This is the school ............... I studied.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
Where can mean in which.
9She may be late ............... case we ought to wait for her.
Wrong!
10We moved to the country so that the kids would have a garden ...............
Wrong!
Both options are possible here. The relative pronoun is dropped in an informal style and it is more common to use infinitive + preposition.
11This is the room ...............
Wrong!
The structure with 'that' is common in an informal style.
12The idea ............... she put forward was interesting.
Wrong!
Done.
Score: 0/12
Answers
- This is the house where I was born.
- This is the town where I spent my childhood.
- This is the town where/in which I spent my childhood.
- Do you know a shop where/at which I can find sports shoes?
- She got married again a few months later, which surprised everybody.
- I was impressed by the way in which she did it.
- We have got everything that you ordered.
- This is the school in which/where I studied.
- She may be late in which case we ought to wait for her.
- We moved to the country so that the kids would have a garden Either could be used here
- This is the room Either could be used here
- The idea which she put forward was interesting.
