English Grammar Drills

60 Noun Phrases
The Japanese whom we met at the trade conference were interested in our products.
1. I like authors who create a strong sense of place in their books.
2. The movie stars that we have today are not the role models that movie stars used to be.
3. “Yellow Dog” is a political term used to describe a Democrat who would vote for a yellow
dog before he would vote for a Republican.
4. You should take a jacket that you can wear if it gets cold.
5. They were the players whom the press identified as taking payoffs.
6. I didn’t know any of the girls who were at the party.
7. They listed the names of those students that had passed their final exams.
8. The reporters interviewed the policemen who had arrived at the scene first.
9. Could we talk to the boys that we saw fishing off the pier?
10. The players whom we interviewed were very unhappy with the officials who refereed the
game.
11. He asked the buyers who had already made a payment if they would accept a refund.
12. The receptionist that we talked to told us to take a seat.
13. Next, we had to clean all the fish that we had caught.
14. The people who lived nearby all began to drift away.
15. The people that the speaker had named all stood up and received a round of applause.
The deletion of relative pronouns that play the role of object in their own clauses makes
relative clauses much more difficult for nonnative speakers to recognize because the relative
pronoun, the flag word that marks the beginning of an adjective clause, is no longer there. The
following exercise will give you practice in identifying adjective clauses when the relative pronoun
has been deleted.
Exercise 4.10
All of the following sentences contain at least one adjective clause with the relative pronoun
deleted. Underline the adjective clause and restore an appropriate relative pronoun.
The equipment you ordered last week has just arrived.
The equipment that you ordered last week has just arrived.