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WORKBOOK 9.3 Relative Pronouns

SP 102Seor Owens

A. Some notes

1. When two sentences or clauses share a common theme, they are often joined together using a

_______________________.

2. The most common relative pronoun is ________. It can be used to refer to either ______ or

___________. In English it can be the equivalent of ________, ________, ________ and

_________.

3. The relative pronoun _________ is only used to refer to __________. It has a plural form

_____________.

4. When referring to a person after a ___________ the word _________ is used. After a

preposition ________ refers to things.

5. __________ and its related forms can refer to people and things. They are generally usedwhen the word ________ occurs. ___________ and its related forms can be used in place of the

previous group.

6. The relative pronoun used to refer to abstract ideas or concepts is __________.

7. The relative adjective _________ and its related forms, relates the owner to that which isowned, as does the English word ___________.

8. The relative pronoun is often left out in English but _________ in Spanish.

B. Try these sentences:

1. The girl, whose father is a teacher, is very nice. _____________________________________2. The man, whose mother died, wrote a book about her. ________________________________

3. Pedro, whose sisters are pretty, has a new car. ______________________________________

4. The girl who is singing is my cousin. _____________________________________________

5. The man you met last night is an author. ___________________________________________6. The women that we heard were acting crazy. _______________________________________

7. She is the lady that I work with. _________________________________________________

8. The pen that you are talking about is black. ________________________________________9. My uncle, the one who is a cook, is going to arrive soon. ______________________________

10. The watch that you have is mine. ________________________________________________11. The woman, who is from Spain, is ninety years old. _________________________________12. The one (book) that I am reading is long. _________________________________________

13. The one who invited me to the party was Maria. ____________________________________

14. The city they visited last year is beautiful. ________________________________________

15. The car that I drive is old. _____________________________________________________

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C. Combine these two sentences to create one using a relative pronoun:

1. Las flores estn en el jardn. Las flores son muy bonitas.

_______________________________________________2. Mi padre me dio una computadora. La computadora es muy grande.

_________________________________________________________

3. Hay unas sillas en el patio. Las sillas son muy cmodas._________________________________________________________

4. Muchas personas viajan a Roma. Muchas personas quieren ver a El Papa.

_____________________________________________________________5. Escrib una carta a mi abuela. Sus cuentos siempre me interesan.

D. Llene los vacos con la forma correcta del relativo que mejor cabe. Escoja entre: que, quien,el/la/los/lasque, el/la/los/lascual(es), cuyo, lo que y lo cual.

El hombre _____________ est all en el rincn es mi to Jaime. Y la chica con_____________ (l) habla es su hija, mi sobrina Isabel. Estn discutiendo el drama

_____________ vieron esta tarde en el teatro Embassy. En el drama hay un hombre llamado

Jorge _____________ esposa, ______________ se llama Marta, quiere matarlo. Cuando Marta

saca una pistola, Jorge trata de esconderse. Sin embargo, la mesa detrs de ________________Jorge se encuentra no es muy grande, y Marta le pega un tiro. Unos segundos despus entra en la

casa una vecina ______________ nombre es Ana. Ana ve que estn un poco desorganizados los

muebles detrs de ________________ Jorge se cay. Cuando va a arreglarlos, descubre queMarta ha matado a su esposo, despus de _______________, Marta saca el revlver y mata a

Ana. Casi en el momento en _______________ eso pasa, un vecino _______________ es un

viejo amigo de Jorge llama en la puerta. Jorge es _______________ le dio el revlver a Martapara que ella se defendiera de los ladrones _______________ a veces roban casas en el barrio.

Cuando Jorge ve __________________ ha pasado, l empieza a rer, despus de

________________ l se lo explica todo. Las balas ________________ estaban en el revlver

eran de goma. Es decir que la fuerza del impacto quizs hiri a Juan y a Ana, y quizs les hizo

perder conciencia, pero no estn muertos. Pero Marta le explica que las balas con_______________ ella mat a Juan y a Ana no eran ___________________ estaban en la pistola

originalmente. En este momento...