FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

PART 1 Editing Advice

1. Use who or that to introduce a person. Use that or which to introduce a thing. that

The states what are losing the most population are in cold climates. who

I have many friends which go to Meetups. 2. If the relative pronoun is the subject of the adjective clause, don’t omit it. that

She started a group now has 100 members. ^ 3. Use whose to substitute for a possessive form. whose

Gabby, her father was an actor, hopes to find work in movies. 4. If the relative pronoun is used as the object of the adjective clause, don’t put an object after the verb of the adjective clause.

There are a lot of interesting Meetups that I found them.

5. Use subject-verb agreement in the adjective clause. s

I have a friend who live in Madrid. ^ 6. Put a noun before an adjective clause.

A person whoWho has a few good friends is lucky. 7. Use where, not that, to mean “in a place.” where

She moved to North Dakota, that she found a good job.

8. Use whom and which, not who and that, if the preposition precedes the relative pronoun. which

He found a group in that he’s interested. whom

I’ve never met the person about who you are talking. 9. Use the correct word order in an adjective clause (subject before verb). Gabby acted in The first play that acted in Gabby was at her high school. 10. Don’t confuse whose (possessive form) and who’s (who is). who's

A woman whose in my science Meetup teaches biology at a high school.

PART 2 Editing Practice

Some of the shaded words and phrases have mistakes. Find the mistakes and correct them. If the shaded words are correct, write C.

C where

I would like to find one of the friends that I had in college. I found a website that I can look

for old friends. My friend, whose name is Linda Gast, got married shortly after we graduated.

The man which she married is Bart Reed. I tried googling the names “Linda Gast” and “Linda

Reed,” but I had no luck. I found a woman with who she shared a room in college, and she gave

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me a phone number. The phone number that gave me her roommate is not in service anymore.

I called a man what used to be her neighbor, but he said that she moved away a long time ago.

The last reunion that I attended it was four years ago, but she wasn’t there. The people were our

friends in high school didn’t know anything about her. I looked in the phone book and found

some people their name is the same as hers, but they weren’t the right people. I went back to the

high school that she was a student, but they had no information about her.

Because of the Internet, now is a time when it’s easier than ever to find people. But my

search, which have taken me almost five years, has produced no result. Recently I met someone

whose a friend of her brother, and he told me that Linda’s now living in South America. He’s

going to try to find Linda’s current address. Looking for Linda is hard, but I’m determined to find

her. Who tries hard enough usually succeeds.

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WRITING TIP

Using a variety of adjectives and adjective clauses to describe nouns will make your writing more interesting. If you are writing about friendships (prompt 1), you might want to describe the kinds of people you were friends with when you were younger compared to now:

When I was younger, my friends were people who were in the drama club. Now my friends are people who have young children like me. If you are writing about two types of relationships (prompt 2), you could describe the differences between the two:

At work, I’m friendly with people who are serious and reliable. When I’m away from work, I prefer to spend time with people who are relaxed and fun to be around.

PART 3 Write

Read the prompts. Choose one and write a paragraph about it. 1. Compare the friendships you have today with the friendships you had when you were younger. 2. Compare your social relationships with your work relationships.

PART 4 Edit

Reread the Summary of Unit 11 and the editing advice. Edit your writing from Part 3.

UNIT 12

Superlatives Comparatives

SPORTS and ATHLETES

2,300 athletes, and one green sea turtle, await the start of the 140.6-mile race at the Ironman World Championship triathlon in Kailua Kona, Hawaii, U.S.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. MICHAEL JORDAN