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How to Shorten Relative Clauses?

Relative clauses with who, which, that as subject pronoun can be replaced with a participle. This makes the sentence shorter and easier to understand.
I told you about the woman who lives next door. – I told you about the woman living next door.
Do you see the cat which is lying on the roof? – Do you see the cat lying on the roof?


Exercise 1. Choose the correct definition.

1. 
   A library is a building where you can borrow books.
   
2. 
   A butterfly is an insect which has colourful wings.
   
3. 
   A waiter is a man who serves drinks and food in a restaurant.
   
4. 
   A night is the time of a day when it is dark outside.
   
5. 
   A bricklayer is a person who builds houses.
   
6. 
   A dictionary is a book where you can look up words in another language.
   
7. 
   A pickpocket is a person who steals purses from pockets and bags
   
8. 
   A carnivore is an animal which lives on meat.
   
9. 
   A synonym is a word which has the same meaning as another word.
   
10. 
    Spring is the season of the year when plants begin to grow.
    

Exercise 2. Decide whether to use who or which.
Use who for people; for everything else use which.

1. 
   The people who  built Stonehenge lived several thousand years ago.
   
2. 
   The huge stones which  are more than 6 metres high weigh about 45 tons.
   
3. 
   The smaller stones weigh about 4 tons and are from an area in Wales which  is 400 kilometres away from Stonehenge.
   
4. 
   As Stonehenge lies in a large field, tourists who  come to this place can already see the stones from a distance.
   
5. 
   Everybody who  has visited Stonehenge says that it is very impressive.