School Life  ● Grammar and usage

read the article on page 9. make sure you can identify the attributive clauses. point out the antecedent, the relative pronoun or the relative adverb and its function in each sentence. then translate the sentences into chinese so as to compare the differences.
3. dealing with part c1 on page 88 in workbook to identify attributive clauses.
answers
paragraph 1：
david was one of the most helpful students that we ever had.(the antecedent: the most helpful students; the relative pronoun: that, used as the object in the clause)
in 1998, he went to oxford university where he got interested in chinese culture. (the antecedent: oxford university; the relative adverb: where, used as the adverbial in the clause)
paragraph 2:
some of the cities in china which he likes most are beijing, shanghai, harbin and nanjing. (the antecedent: some of the cities; the relative pronoun: which, used as the object in the clause)
most of the students that he taught have become his friends. (the antecedent: most of the students; the relative pronoun that, used as the object in the clause)
paragraph 3：
some of the books were gifts that he got from his chinese friends and students.
(the antecedent: gifts, the relative pronoun: that, used as the object in the clause)
the paintings that david donated to the school are being displayed in the assembly hall. (the antecedent: the paintings; the relative pronoun: that, used as the object in the clause)
 answer
part c1 (page 88) 2    4     5     6     7     9
 
 
step2: relative pronouns: that, which, who, whom and whose
here i’d like you to know in what circumstances that, which, who, whom or whose is used, or can be left out.
1. read the three sentences in point 1 on page 10 and point out the antecedent in each sentence.       ( the story, the cake and the book, all of which refer to things. ) when the antecedent is/are a thing/things, we usually use the relative pronoun that or which to introduce the attributive clause.the function of that/which in the attributive clause is the object.
2. read the three sentences in point 2 and point out the antecedent in each sentence. (a friend, the girl and the teacher.) when the antecedents are people, an attributive clause is often introduced by who. who is used as the subject in the clause. from tip box, we know that can also be used to refer to a person/people.
3. now let’s come to point 3. the antecedents in the two sentences are the teacher and the student. whom or who is used as the object in the attributive clause. in such case, who is more usual in oral english, while whom is more formal and often used in written english.