EF45 Adjective Clauses Exercises

Exercise 4

2.The pizzeria where we ate yesterday served expensive food.
The pizzeria that we ate yesterday in /at served expensive food.

We ate there.

The pizzeria (where we ate there yesterday) served expensive food.
The pizzeria (which we ate there at yesterday) served expensive food.


The sandwich was good. I ate it.
The sandwich (that I ate it) was good.
The sandwich (that I ate it) was good.

The sandwich I ate was good. AUTHENTIC ENGLISH- COMPLEX SENTENCE

The sandwich that I ate was good. 

A clause is a subject and a verb.

3. My dog died yesterday (which made me very sad).


4. Sunday is the day when I sleep late.
Sunday is the day that I sleep in late.
Sunday is the day that I sleep late.

I was late today because I slept in.

6. Marta is the type of boss who is easy to work with.

PRACTICAL- USEFUL

7. Salmon is a meal that I love salmon.
Salmon is a meal which I love.
Salmon is a meal I love.

Salmon is a meal I love it. X
Salmon is a meal. I love it. 2 sentences


Exercise 3 

1. He used to live in Colombia, that is a Spanish-speaking country.
CS comma splice
He used to live in Colombia. That is a Spanish-speaking country.

He used to live in Colombia which is a Spanish-speaking country.
Colombia, where he used to live, is a Spanish-speaking country.
ADJ CL


'where' is for actions in places
He used to live in Colombia where people speak Spanish.

Spanish-speaking (adj)
Canada is an English-speaking country.

She is three years old.
She is a three-year-old girl.

This class is nine weeks.
This is a nine-week class.

- hyphen

This class has 28 students.

Her house has eight-foot ceilings.

The ceilings are eight feet high.

If you use a -, then you don't use a plural.


She owns a three-legged cat. (a)

She is long-legged dancer.

The baby has brown eyes.
She is a brown-eyed baby.

adjective form

I am left-handed.

Her family are all wide-shouldered.

He is a pencil-necked teenager.

insult- dissing (slang) disrespect

She can't see well without her glasses.

She is near-sighted. Her husband is far-sighted.

He wears bifocals. They are called transition lenses.

She wears trifocals, but they give her a headache.

I have a white-haired dog.

Some people have special reading glasses.

She is well-dressed.

Teachers are often poorly-dressed.
You need a makeover.
You are over-dressed. too fancy
You are under-dressed. too casual