语法测验：关系从句

英语小测验语法测验：关系从句

英语中的“关系从句 relative clause”也被称为“定语从句”，这类句子的出现频率很高。我们可以使用该语法结构给句中的名词短语补充信息。如果对关系从句和关系代词的用法不够了解，就很有可能无法理解句子所表达的具体含义。试做几道小题来巩固和这个语法点有关的常识。

1. Which of these can a relative clause NOT do?

a) Better define or identify a noun phrase

b) Add extra information about a noun phrase

c) Explain that you have arranged for someone to do something for you

d) Add the speaker's opinon about the information contained within the sentence

2. Relative clauses require a relative pronoun to act as a conjunction between the noun and the relative clause. Which of these CANNOT be used as a relative pronoun?

a) How

b) That

c) Whom

d) Whose

3. In which of these sentences is it possible to omit the relative pronoun? (in bold)

a) The girl who I met yesterday is nice.

b) My sister, who lives in Ireland, has blonde hair.

c) A pilot is a person who flies planes.

d) He found the boy, who had lost his parents, wandering alone.

4. Which of these statements about non-defining relative clauses is true?