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English Language: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Sentences (Relative Clauses) (Questions)

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A relative clause is an example of a subordinate clause: 'My book, which is lost, contains my homework'. Subordinate clauses provide extra information, often containing a subject (doer) and verb (action word). Mark clauses off with commas.

Challenge your knowledge of relative clauses by playing this enjoyable middle school quiz.

1. Select the correct term for the following.
The shop, which was apparently open, had no lights on.
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
2. Select the correct term for the following.
Its lights, which had been working, had broken.
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
3. Select the correct term for the following.
The electrician, whom they had telephoned, arrived.
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
4. Select the correct term for the following.
....... an electrician's toolbox .......
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
5. Select the correct term for the following.
The electrician arrived and he carried his toolbox.
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
6. Select the correct term for the following.
....... the shop's lights .......
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
7. Select the correct term for the following.
He carried a toolbox and he mended the shop's lights.
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
8. Select the correct term for the following.
He carried a toolbox in his hand.
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
9. Select the correct term for the following.
....... in his hand .......
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
10. Select the correct term for the following.
The toolbox, which he carried, was heavy.
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
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English Language: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Sentences (Relative Clauses) (Answers)
1. Select the correct term for the following.
The shop, which was apparently open, had no lights on.
[x] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
You find relative clauses in complex sentences
2. Select the correct term for the following.
Its lights, which had been working, had broken.
[x] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
A relative clause can begin with 'which' or 'who'
3. Select the correct term for the following.
The electrician, whom they had telephoned, arrived.
[x] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
A relative clause is a type of subordinate clause
4. Select the correct term for the following.
....... an electrician's toolbox .......
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[x] Phrase
[ ] Simple
A phrase is a group of words: here a noun phrase
5. Select the correct term for the following.
The electrician arrived and he carried his toolbox.
[ ] Complex
[x] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
A compound sentence = simple sentences joined
6. Select the correct term for the following.
....... the shop's lights .......
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[x] Phrase
[ ] Simple
A phrase acting as a noun
7. Select the correct term for the following.
He carried a toolbox and he mended the shop's lights.
[ ] Complex
[x] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
8. Select the correct term for the following.
He carried a toolbox in his hand.
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[x] Simple
Subject (he), verb (carried), object (toolbox) = simple
9. Select the correct term for the following.
....... in his hand .......
[ ] Complex
[ ] Compound
[x] Phrase
[ ] Simple
A phrase or group of words
10. Select the correct term for the following.
The toolbox, which he carried, was heavy.
[x] Complex
[ ] Compound
[ ] Phrase
[ ] Simple
Complex sentence = two or more clauses