After reviewing the short article on Relative Pronouns and Adjective Clauses, test your understanding of the five relative pronouns by completing this exercise.
Instructions:
In the following sentences, complete each adjective clause by adding an appropriate relative pronoun: who, which, that, whose, or whom. Then compare your responses with the answers on page two.
- The creek beds, _____ in May are usually overflowing, are no more than a trickle now.
- Sundown is an unincorporated town of about 20,000 people, almost all of _____ are over the age of 60.
- Joan DiNitto is the lawyer _____ handled my case.
- A lawyer, _____ first responsibility is to her client, must still have respect for the law.
- Howard is majoring in badminton, _____ is not yet an Olympic sport.
- Our values and goals are greatly influenced by the people to _____ we become attached during our earliest years.
- Hiking is an outdoor activity _____ can be done independently or in groups.
- My first car was a ten-year-old Pacer, _____ once was considered "the car of the future."
- Professor Legree, _____ dissertation has just been published by Vanity Press, has agreed to be the keynote speaker.
- John Wayne, ______ appeared in over 200 movies, was the biggest box-office attraction of his time.
- Mercury, _____ is the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures, is silvery white and heavier than lead.
- The first African-American mayor of a major Southern city was Maynard Jackson, _____ was elected chief executive of Atlanta in 1973.
- Children _____ parents are harsh, angry, and irritable are likely to behave in the same way toward their own children.
- New York is known as the city _____ never sleeps.
- Josephine Cochrane, the woman _____ invented the dishwasher, had servants to do all her kitchen work.
