English Grammar Test: Relative Clauses (Practice Test 2)
- Relative Clauses
- 10 questions
- 12 minutes
A second set of relative clause questions. Tip: use who for people, which for things, whose for possession and where for places.
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Question 1
A dentist is a person ____ takes care of your teeth.
Correct answer: A
The relative pronoun refers to a person and is the subject of takes, so use who (or that). Which is for things.
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Question 2
Is this the book ____ you told me about?
Correct answer: C
The book is a thing and the object of told me about, so that (or which) is correct. Where refers to places.
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Question 3
The town ____ I grew up has changed a lot.
Correct answer: B
Grew up has no object here, and the clause tells us the place, so use where (= in which). Which I grew up would need in at the end.
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Question 4
I met a woman ____ son plays professional basketball.
Correct answer: B
Whose shows possession: her son plays basketball. Who's means who is and does not fit before son.
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Question 5
My brother, ____ lives in Seattle, is a software engineer.
Correct answer: D
This clause is non-defining (between commas), so that is not possible. The pronoun is the subject of lives, so who, not whom.
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Question 6
The hotel ____ we booked online looked much nicer in the photos.
Correct answer: A
We booked needs an object, and which fills that place for a thing. Where is wrong because we booked the hotel, we did not book something in it.
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Question 7
The doctor to ____ I spoke was very helpful.
Correct answer: D
Right after a preposition, use whom for people (or which for things). That can never follow a preposition.
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Question 8
Which sentence uses a relative clause correctly?
Correct answer: C
Who refers to a person and replaces the subject, so no extra she is needed. Which is for things, and whose needs a noun after it.
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Question 9
I have two cousins, both of ____ live in Texas.
Correct answer: B
After both of, some of or all of in a relative clause, use whom for people. Both of them would need a new sentence or and.
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Question 10
This is the best pizza ____ I have ever eaten.
Correct answer: C
After a superlative like the best, the usual relative pronoun is that. What cannot follow a noun.
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