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WRITING EXERCISE
RELATIVE PRONOUNS I & II

Write sentences about the place in which you live (apartment or house).  Use the relative pronouns indicated.  Remember, relative pronouns follow a noun and change according to the role of that noun in the following clause.

Example:  As-tu touché l'horloge que nous avons acheté?
(The relative pronoun "que" follows the noun "l'horloge" because the latter is the direct object of the verb, "acheter," in the following clause.)

IT WILL HELP YOU TO MODEL YOUR SENTENCES ON THE EXAMPLES IN THE REVIEW.

Click for a Review of the Relative Pronoun Rules I and II.

1.  Write a sentence about your apartment or house using the relative pronoun "qui" (see Review II A 1, all verbs can be preceded by "qui").

2.  Write a sentence about your apartment or house using the relative pronoun "que" (see Review II A 2 for explanation and list of verbs taking a direct object).

 

3. Write a sentence about your apartment or house using the relative pronoun "dont" (see Review I and the list of verbs followed by the preposition "de")

 

4. Write a sentence about what you like to do in in your apartment or house using the relative pronoun "ce que":  "What I like do in.... is to...." (see Review II B).

 

5. Write a sentence about what makes you sad when you are in your apartment or house:   "What makes me sad when I ....is...."  (see Review II B)
(to make someone have a certain emotion = "rendre" + adjective)

 

6. Write a sentence about what you want to have for your apartment or house.  Use the expression "avoir envie de":  "An x is what I want for" or "I don't know what I want." (See Review I B and II A 3).

 

7. Write a sentence about someone whose parent or friend gave you something for your apartment or house:  "X is the one whose Y gave me an Z for my F. (See Review I C 1 and I A Note 3).

 

8. Write a sentence about someone's parent or friend whom you would not like to have in your apartment or house:  "It's X whose Y I would not like to see in my Z"   (See Review I C 2).

 

9. Write a sentence using the relative pronoun "dont" (different from 3.).   Refer to the list of verbs in Review I A.  Remember. The sentence must contain a noun + dont + an expression taking the preposition "de."

 

10.  Write a sentence using "ce dont" (different from 6.).  Refer to the list of verbs in Review I A.  Remember "ce dont" has no antecedent and is translated "what."  It is followed by an expression taking the preposition "de."

 

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