Fill in the blanks.
1. She wore a ring .............................. was made of platinum.
Please select 2 correct answers
Either which or that can refer to things in relative clauses.
2. The police have arrested the robbers ............................. had broken into the house.
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the relative clause use who to refer to people.
3. This is Meera ............................. was my classmate at university.
That cannot refer to people in non-identifying relative clauses.
4. The tiger ............................... had forayed into the village has been caught.
5. I believe ............................ I see.
What means that which.
6. This is the car ............................ we want to sell.
That and which can both refer to objects in relative clauses.
7. I would like to talk to the person ............................... is in charge of organizing the event.
Use which to refer to objects. Use whom when the relative pronoun is the object of the relative clause.
8. Abraham Lincoln was the best President ............................... ever ruled America.
9. The man ............................. they arrested was a spy.
Here the relative pronoun is the object of the relative clause. The man was a spy. They arrested him. Here the relative pronoun whom replaces the object pronoun him.
10. The boy ............................. she fell in love with was very poor.
11. All the money ........................... he had saved over the years was gone.
That is preferred after superlatives and words like all, any etc.
12. The rumor ............................ we heard proved to be true.
Answers
1. She wore a ring which was made of platinum.
2. The police have arrested the robbers who had broken into the house.
3. This is Meera who was my classmate at university.
4. The tiger which had forayed into the village has been caught.
5. I believe what I see.
6. This is the car which / that we want to sell.
7. I would like to talk to the person who / that is in charge of organizing the event.
8. Abraham Lincoln was the best President who / that ever ruled America.
9. The man whom / that they arrested was a spy.
10. The boy that she fell in love with was very poor.
11. All the money that he had saved over the years was gone.
12. The rumor that / which we heard proved to be true.
