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Chapter 15: Relative Clauses


Instructions

Chapter 15 has five sets of exercises, with corresponding instructions for each exercise below. 

Answers must use the appropriate capitalization/case, punctuation, and accents to be considered correct. Answers must be typed in lower case (except for initial capital letters a sentence) and use a full stop at the end of a sentence. Other examples of correct punctuation include putting a space before exclamation marks / question marks / semi-colons / colons in French; using French guillemets; putting titles (including film titles) in italics, and so on.

Exercise 1: qui and que (write-in)

Complete each sentence by typing the correct missing relative pronoun/s – qui or que or qu’.

Exercise 2: Relative pronouns: preposition + qui and preposition + lequel (write-in)

Complete each sentence by typing the correct missing relative pronoun – qui or the appropriate form of lequel. Combine prepositions and relative pronouns where necessary. For example, Je vous présente les deux professeurs grâce à ________ j’ai appris le français. = auxquels. Type only the relative pronoun in the answer box.

Exercise 3: Relative pronouns: dont and duquel (write-in)

Complete each sentence by typing the correct missing relative pronoun – dont or the appropriate form of duquel. Combine prepositions and relative pronouns where necessary. For example, L’édifice à côté de ________ j’habite est un ancien entrepôt. = duquel. Type only the relative pronoun in the answer box.

Exercise 4: Relative pronouns: ce quice quece dontce à quoi, etc. (multiple choice)

Select the appropriate relative pronoun to complete each sentence.

Exercise 5: Translation of ‘whoever’, ‘whatever’, ‘whichever’ and ‘however’ (multiple choice)

Complete each sentence by translating the words in brackets and selecting the appropriate form from the choices given.

Characters

Some write-in answers may require you to include the following characters:

To type these characters in the answer box, you may copy and paste from these instructions. (Select the character and copy using Ctrl+C and paste using Ctrl+V.)