Some noun clauses begin with words such as that, what, why, or other words that. Fill in the gaps with the verbs in brackets in the correct forms. In this adjective clause worksheet, students choose who, whom, or which to complete the 12 sentences. Teachingenglish lesson plans uk bbc british council 2012. Relative clauses b1 pdf worksheets english practice. A collection of english esl worksheets for home learning, online practice, distance learning and english classes to teach about participle, clauses, particip. It led to what was easily the longest conversations theyd had in english all year. Clause worksheets clauses are difficult for most students. Additionally, it features a table to fill in with examples of those nouns. Other ways of expressing condition and time relationships i.
Reduced relative clauses download this page in pdf here. Placing the subject at the beginning of the participle clause. Page 1 of 4 participle phrases as reduced relative clauses. Defining relative clauses 1 in pdf here defining relative clauses 2 in pdf here defining relative clauses 3 in pdf here defining relative clauses 4 in pdf here go to the main relative clauses explanation page here. An independent clause is a complete worked out thought. Underline the independent clause once and the dependent or subordinate clause twice. Because he didnt study hard enough for his exam, ryan couldnt pass it. Participle clauses lessons pdf version of the exercise english grammar exercises. Click here for information about participle adjectives. The teacher was impressed by daniels work, so she gave him the highest mark.
Participle clauses exercise 1 perfect english grammar. Clause and phrase game free by jessica osborne tpt. Level intermediate time 30 minutes introduction here is a fun guessing game to help students practice using defining relative clauses with who. Expansion activities fundamentals of english grammar, 3rd edition chapter 14. Some of the words that introduce noun clauses are that, whether, who, why, whom, what, how, when, whoever, where, and whomever. Defining relative clauses with who, which and where aim to describe words using defining relative clauses. Before you go home today, you need to go to the office and pay for the school trip. Practice rewrite the following sentences using participle clauses. This worksheet contains the definitions of proper and common nouns. Defining relative clauses they describe the preceding noun in such a way as to distinguish it from other nouns of the same class.
We can use participle clauses after a noun in the same way as relative clauses. As participle clauses are often used to describe a process, its a good idea to get your students to practice this aspect also. It makes no difference in terms of meaning the two clauses can usually be reversed although clauses with onlyif usually come second. While any of magnetar or any magnetar fund is a member of the d group, magnetar, and the magnetar fund, and each other fund or any account managed by them and each officer, director, employee, or agent or representative of magnetar and the magnetar fund and each other fund managed by it each of the foregoing persons and entities being a. Lesson 271 noun clauses a noun clause is a dependent clause that can be used in the same way as a noun or pronoun. All three of these sentences are talking about the future time. Past participle of regular and irregular verbs esl. I saw jack while he was parking in front of his house. Relative clauses describe or give extra information about something.
Relative clauses worksheet relative clauses can help make a sentence clearer. One of the important keys for this unit is to limit the scope. Defining relative pronouns exercise people that who whom owners whose things that which places where when the relative pronoun is an object, it can be omitted except with whose and where. Then you can use the answer key to check your answers. The information in relative clauses is always essential for understanding. Write the line numbers of the three if clauses that have simple present tense verbs. Participle clauses exercise rewrite the sentences with participle clauses. Esl grammar activities games worksheets teach this esl. Whether or not shes going to give us another chance isnt certain. Decide if the red words form a dependent or independent clause. All the teaching resources come in userfriendly a4 pdf format with full. Write the subjectverb combinations from both the if clause and the main clause. Relative clauses are used to describe the noun naming the process or position when discussing tasks that need to be completed, or explaining how certain things work. A relative clause speaking activity which is fabulously fun relative clauses are a classic grammar point that youll find in just about every 4skills esl textbook.
Tell students they are going to use these structures to describe one of the following. The ability to use relative clauses easily is important to all english learners, but perhaps even more important to those wanting to use english in their workplaces. We use relative pronouns like which, that, who and where at the beginning of relative clauses. While any of magnetar or any magnetar fund is a member of the d group, magnetar, and the magnetar fund, and each other fund or any account managed by them and each officer, director, employee, or agent or representative of magnetar and the magnetar fund and each other fund managed by it each of the foregoing persons and entities being a magnetar party, will. Fishermen who seasonally attended to their dry fishery on the eastern avalon peninsula of newfoundland represented the extent of the english presence in north america for more than threequarters of a century after. Noun clauses truefalse the two sentences have the same meaning. The why game for practicing clauses of reason and purpose. The activities and exercises in this lesson help familiarize your students with adjective. Explanations and examples along with tests and exercises online to practise english time clauses. Techniques for teaching adjectives and adjective clauses. Participle clauses can also follow prepositions or conjunctions. Students should choose one of the things from the list and say something true about that thing or person, e.
Circle the eight examples of if and the two examples of wish in the passage. In groups they will race against each other to complete the task. Outstanding collection of esl grammar activities, games and worksheets to help. It shows that the action is done to the subject, not by the subject.
It does not express a complete thought and is not a complete sentence. Ideas for teaching participle clauses teaching english. Dependent clauses start with because, since directions. Identify examples of subordinate clauses and distinguish them from independent clauses. In this course, you will learn how to effectively teach. Preparation make one copy of the cards for each group of three or four and cut as indicated. If you run into peter, tell him that he owes me a letter. The grammar is simple enough, but it can be a bit difficult to come up with a fun activity or game that gets students using relative clauses when speaking. English esl relative clauses worksheets most downloaded 227. Subordinate clauses simply dont express a complete thought and cant stand by themselves as a sentence. Diagram the sentence and, to the side of your diagram, indicate what job each clause is doing. In the last 8 sentences students write an s if which or that is the subject of the adjective clause and o if which or that is the. Decide if the clauses below are dependent or independent.
Students who understand adjective clauses can be better readers and stronger, more sophisticated writers. Indicates an action that happens simultaneously with the action in the main clause. A fun relative clause speaking activity activities to try. English practice downloadable pdf grammar and vocabulary worksheets. Chuckys participle clauses tims free english lesson plans. We decided to have a picnic although the weather wasnt very good. Find relative clauses lesson plans and teaching resources. Fundamentals of english grammar, 3rd edition chapter 14. Find adjective clause lesson plans and teaching resources. Relative clauses pdf quiz relative clauses worksheet relative clauses pdf exercises defining and. What do you notice about the verbs in the if clause and in the main clause. The why game for practicing clauses of reason and purpose this is an activity i did with with an intermediate group of young learners who absolutely loved it.
Trivia sentence building challenge give or brainstorm a list of things that trivia questions are often about, e. This game is for students to practice the difference between a clause and a phrase. See more ideas about teaching, teaching grammar and grammar and punctuation. Write the line numbers of the four if clauses that have simple past tense verbs. You can use either a defining relative clause without commas or a nondefining relative clause with commas.
This use of prepositions or conjunctions before participle clauses mainly ing participle clauses is quite common. Relative clauses games esl activities worksheets teach this esl. There is also an idea for a game i play with my students during speaking classes which they all enjoy and actually leads to more conversation discussion about how difficult or not the clues. Past participle worksheets pdf, printable exercises. A noun clause is a clause that is used in the same way as a noun or a pronoun. Learn techniques for teaching adjectives and adjective clauses from university of california, irvine. In groups they will race against each other to complete the task first. Heres a list of all the relative clause exercises on the site. Draw a line separating the clauses in the sentence, count them, and write the amount of clauses on the line.
Relative clauses for speaking lessons busy teacher. Activity 2 to practice giving instructions describing a process. The relative pronoun can be the subject or the object of the relative clause. Aug 18, 2018 teaching phrases and clauses how to identify the difference and types of each. Having been trained for 2 years, he has become very skilful in the trade.
Identifying clauses in complex sentences worksheet. English grammar time clauses exercises focusenglishschool. Relative clauses are a classic grammar point that youll find in just about every 4skills esl textbook. Relative clause pdf games, esl activities, and interactive and printable worksheets to help teach a2, b1, b2 levels definingnondefining relative clauses. Example i know what he was doing there in the classroom a way for learners to identify a noun clause is for them to change the noun clause for it, he or she and see if it still works. Jan 17, 2020 relative clauses are used to describe the noun naming the process or position when discussing tasks that need to be completed, or explaining how certain things work. Tell students that you are going to define the country without giving the name and they have to guess what it is. It is helpful before teaching simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Richard nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and english at georgia southern university and the author of several universitylevel grammar and composition textbooks. It can be a subject, predicate nominative, direct object, appositive, indirect object, or object of the preposition. Noun clauses, young learners, homework, wordsetscollocations. Tenses printable pdf worksheets for english language learners intermediate level b1. Acting as a noun a noun clause is a type of subordinate clause. Because it had snowed all night, i had terrible problems getting to school.
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