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há 3 anos

1.  

a) She's a nice old lady whose parents were born in New York.

b) Did you pick up the keys that were on the table?

c) A man brought in a small girl whose hand had been cut by flying glass.

d) Cathy Freeman was an aborigine athlete who lit the Olympic flame in Sydney.

e) Mayka is a Spanish woman whose husband is Egyptian.

2.  

a) John, who is my younger brother, went to do the shopping.

b) His work, which is very difficult, exhausted him.

c) Tom, whose mother is French, speaks the language very well.

d) Mr Smith, who I was talking to, is a carpenter.

e) Your problem, which I have thought about a lot, is a difficult one.

3.

a) We spent our holiday in Scotland last year, Scotland is in the north of Great Britain.

Last year we spent our holidays in Scotland, which is in the north of Great Britain.

b) People live in Scotland. They are called Scots.  

The people who live in Scotland are called Scots.

c) We first went to Edinburgh. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland.  

We first went to Edinburgh, which is the capital of Scotland.

d) Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh. He wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories.  

Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories was born in Edinburgh.

e) Then we visited a lake. It is in the Highlands.  

The lake that we visited, it is in the Highlands.  

f) Loch Ness is 37 km long. People know it for its friendly monster.

Loch Ness, which people know it for its friendly monster, is 37 km long.

g) There we met an old man. He told us that he had seen Nessie.  

An old man who we met there told us that he had seen Nessie.  

h) We then traveled to a mountain. The mountain is near the town of Fort William.  

We then traveled to a mountain that is near the town of Fort William.  

i) The mountain is the highest mountain in Great Britain. It is called Ben Nevis.  

The mountain which is the highest in Great Britain, it is called Ben Nevis.  

j) I sent you a postcard. It was written on the summit of Ben Nevis.  

The postcard that I sent you was written on the summit of Ben Nevis.

4.

a) His girlfriend whose he trusted absolutely, turned out to be an enemy spy.

b) We’ll have to walk across the frontier, which will be difficult.

c) We lit a fire that soon dried out our clothes.

d) I played with a girl who was very nice.

e) I've got a friend whose mother is in hospital.

f) A vegetarian is a person who doesn't eat meat.

5.

a) The people we met were very nice.

b) The shoes I’m wearing are not very comfortable.

c) What’s the name’s book you’re reading ?

d) She didn’t get the letter I wrote to her.

e) I’ve lost an umbrella they gave me

f) The people they invited to dinner didn’t come.

6.

a) My grandmother is 90 years old who has never been ill.

b) The Earth is a planet that moves around the sun.

c) This is the place where we should build our house.

d) Mary who loves studying is my younger sister.

e) I work for a firm that makes cars.

f) I met an old lady whose dog had disappeared.

7. Join these sentences with who, whose, which or where.

a) Yesterday I met Robbie James. Robbie James is the drummer in a new pop group called 'Street Level'. Yesterday I met Robbie James, who is the drummer in a new pop group called 'Street Level'.

b) The house, which is very expensive, has been for sale since last February.  

c) Susan Rose, whose brother Paul works in my office, has just won £ 100,000.

d) I went to Munich where I had always wanted to visit.

e) A cup is an object in which we drink.

f) Mrs. Greeman’s dog, which is mad, but a young girl yesterday.

g) They rowed across the Atlantic, which had never been done before.

h) The doctor, who we didn’t know, came by.

8.

a) She was dancing with a student who had a slight limp.

b) The mother of Mike, who speaks French very well, comes from Paris.

c) Last summer, we went to Whitby, where we stayed at The Queen's Hotel.

d) My uncle Peter, who lives in Scotland, is coming to see me next week. My uncle Peter

e) I am looking after some children who are terribly spoilt.

Explicação:

Os pronomes relativos são: “that, who, whom, which e whose”. Eles se referem a termos citados anteriormente e devem ser usados sempre para se introduzir uma oração subordinada a uma oração principal.

Cada pronome possui sua função diferenciada.