Relative Clauses + Prepositions — When a Genius Couldn't Explain
Grammar: Relative clauses with prepositions and non-defining relative clauses
Free ESL grammar exercise on relative clauses + prepositions themed around when a genius couldn't explain. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising relative clauses with prepositions and non-defining relative clauses. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Chip and Dan Heath, whose book Made to Stick popularised the study, argue that this curse explains most bad business writing. Lloyd Bitzer, the American rhetorician whose 1968 essay shaped how scholars think about persuasion, offered a useful cure.
Grammar
- Preposition + whom
- The client to whom we wrote was anxious. — formal, preposition first
- Preposition + which
- The deadline by which we must reply is Friday. — things, not people
Sample items
- Elizabeth Newton, ______ experiment used a table and a song, studied at Stanford.
- The listeners, none of ______ guessed the song, felt confused.
- The email ______ she spent hours writing confused everyone.
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