Relative Clause

Look at these reduced relative clauses using participles

|1. |Who is that man waving at us? | |
|2. |Most of those trying to get tickets were unsuccessful. | |
|3. |All the workers made redundant last month have now been found new jobs. | |
|4. |The money being collected will go to help a new orphanage | |

Preliminary exercise Now make full relative clauses using who or which and the verb be

|1. |Who is that man [pic] waving at us? | |
|2. |Most of those [pic] trying to get tickets were unsuccessful. | |
|2. |All the workers [pic] made redundant last month have now been found new jobs. | |
|4. |The money [pic] being collected will go to help a new orphanage. | |

Practice 1

Exercise 1a - match the sentence halves and complete the sentences below using a present (-ing) participle. Don't worry about punctuation.

|1. |Some employees have to work late |a |She moved to Australia |
|2. |A doctor lived in this house before us |b |She caught a shoplifter |
|3. |Some doctors attended a conference on malaria |c |They will be provided with taxis |
|4. |A blonde woman is wearing a dark suit |d |They urged governments to act |
|5. |Several roads lead to the city centre |e |They were all closed for the parade |
|6. |A