UNIT
4 Grammar
Past perfect Relative pronouns
1 Order the words to make sentences. 3 Tick () the sentences that have the
correct relative pronoun. Correct the
1 I / by the time / everyone / had /
incorrect pronouns.
got up / , / gone out / .
By the time I got up, everyone had 1 My mum is the person who has helped
gone out. me most in life.
2 started / just / hung out / she / the storm / 2 Los Angeles is the city which most films
the washing / when / had / . are made.
3 The ice cream flavour which I like the
3 had / the police / arrived / the thief / most is vanilla.
escaped / after / . 4 John is someone who only aim in life is to
be rich and successful.
4 hadn’t / our parents / tidied up / angry / 5 Look! That’s the place which I used to go
we / were / because / . to school.
6 Saturday is the only day when I can go to
the park with you this week.
5 Joe / had / finished / there / the party /
by the time / got / .
Defining relative clauses
4 Complete the sentence beginnings with
2 Complete the text with the correct past
the correct relative pronoun. Then match
perfect form of the verbs in brackets.
them with the ending.
Autumn Peltier is a Canadian teenager 1 221b Baker Street is the house
who campaigns for clean water. where d
She started campaigning after she
2 2006 was the year
1 had found out (find out) that not
3 The Atacama Desert is the place
everyone has clean water to drink. Before
this she 2 (not be)
aware of the problem. Fortunately, her 4 An engineer is a person
aunt Josephine 3 5 Being a physicist is something
(work) to protect water in Canada,
so Autumn was able to learn about it 6 Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist
from her. By the time Autumn was 11,
she 4 (attend)
a it is driest.
the Children’s Climate Conference
in Sweden. Then, in 2016, when she b Twitter was invented.
was 12, she met the Canadian Prime c job is to design or look after machines.
Minister Justin Trudeau. After he d Sherlock Holmes lives.
5 (meet) Autumn,
e I’d like to do in the future.
he agreed to help more Canadian people
have clean water. By the time she was 13, f helped create the internet.
in 2018, Autumn 6
(speak) at the United Nations assembly
about the problem. Even though more
people have clean water today because
of her, she continues to campaign.
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