Relative Clauses
Step 5 - Scrambled Exercises:
Example: (To be done in class)
a pretty good light-heavyweight / there was one fighter in those days / named Junior Ellis / before a bout / who used to sing along with country and western records
Robert Lipsyte, The Contender
whose eyes were quicker than most / Little Jon / on the stars / should have seen the hole / but all his attention was Alexander Key, The Forgotten Door
peering from a distance at Jem / to a corner / Boo had drifted / of the room / where he stood with his chin up Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
as the probable liberal candidate for Mid-Devon / the recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville / has cast a gloom over the country / at the next election / whose name has been mentioned Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
who defied authority for the sake of defiance / whose word was law among boys / this leader / and looked even younger / was no more than twelve or thirteen years old Henry Gregor Felsen, “Horatio”
that people of honest feeling and sensibility / born with low intelligence / how strange it is / born without arms or legs or eyes / who would not take advantage of a man / think nothing of abusing a man Daniel Keyes, “Flowers for Algernon”