REDUCED RELATIVE CLAUSES exercise
www.uppsehir.weebly.com › uploads › 5/4/4REDUCED RELATIVE CLAUSES Replace the Relative Clause by a Participle Construction (-ing for active and –ed for passive) while keeping the rest of the sentence unchanged. You have two examples: ACTIVE The boy who was waiting in the hall expected a phone call. The boy waiting in the hall expected a phone call. PASSIVE
Reduced relative clauses - English Grammar
www.englishgrammar.org › reduced-relative-clausesAug 24, 2013 · How to reduce a relative clause? A participle can often be used instead of a relative pronoun and full verb. Read the sentence given below. The girl who sits next to Peter is my neighbor’s daughter. Now when we shorten the relative clause ‘who sits next to Peter’, we get: The girl sitting next to Peter is my neighbor’s daughter. Another example is given below. Who is the girl who is sitting next to your brother? Now when we reduce the relative clause, we get: