Exercises!

Mabel here you will find some exercises so you can practice.

Have a nice weekend!

Exercise 1 - Defining relative clauses

Choose the correct answer.

1. A hotel is a place ___________ people stay when they're on holiday.
2. What's the name of the woman __________lives in that house 

4. What do you call someone  _______writes computer programs?
5. A waiter is a person  __________ job is to serve customers in a restaurant.
6. Overalls are clothes ______people wear to protect their clothes when they are working.
7. Is that the shop __________you bought your new laptop?
8. He's the man   ______-son plays football for Manchester Utd.
9. Hal didn't get the job ________he applied for.

Fill the gaps with the correct form of the verb

1.     We ____________ (go) the theatre last night.

2. He ______________ (usually / write) in red ink.

3. She ____________ (play) the piano when our guests ___________ (arrive) last night.

4. We ___________ (do) an English exercise at the moment.

5. Where _________________ (you / go) for your holidays last year?

6. We ________________ (meet) only yesterday

and _______________ (already / decide) to get married.

7. We _____________(not live) in England for the last two years.

8. I ______________(lose) my keys; I cannot remember when I last _______________(see) them.

9. Whenever he _______________(go) to town nowadays, he ___________(spend) a lot of money.

10. They ___________(prepare) the Christmas dinner today.

 Complete with the correct form of the verb. Use past, future or present.

One day a husband and wife ____________ (drive) to the countryside to visit their friends when they realised they needed to stop for gas. The man was filling up the car when he _______________ (see) a penguin standing by a pump. He ______________ (think) it was very strange and when he went to the cashier to pay, he asked, ‘why is there a penguin standing next to the pump?

The cashier replied, ‘I don’t know’. It ______________ (be) there all morning’. The man replied. ‘well, we can’t leave it there, it’s too dangerous. He might have an accident. What should I do)’ the cashier suggested, ‘you should take it to the zoo’. ‘That’s a good idea.’ The man said.

‘I __________- (take)him now.’ So the man and his wife put the penguin in the car and ________________ (drive) away.

One week later, the man and his wife ______________(return) to the same garage to fill up the car... and the penguin was still in the car. When the man went to pay, the cashier said to him, ‘I thought you _____________ (take) the penguin to the zoo.’

The man replied, ‘ we did. It had a really good time so tonight, we __________ (take) him to a fish restaurant’.