Choose the correct sentence.

My father, who works in a bank, retires next year.

My father, that works in a bank, retires next year.

My father who works in a bank retires next year.

In which sentence can the relative pronoun be left out?

The documentary that we watched last night was filmed in Lagos.

The engineer who designed the bridge gave a lecture.

My landlord, who owns three buildings, lives abroad.

Grammar exercises · 12 questions

Relative clauses exercises

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Test yourself on relative clauses with 12 interactive questions. Every answer comes with an explanation — and if you get one wrong, the AI tutor can explain exactly why your answer didn't work.

Question 1 of 12

My aunt is the person ___ taught me to cook.

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Guessing gets you through a quiz; understanding gets you through the exam. Read the full Relative clauses lesson — A relative clause describes a noun using who, which, that, whose, where, or when. Defining relative clauses identify exactly which person or thing you mean and take no commas; non-defining clauses add extra information between commas and never use 'that'. They are a core structure for IELTS Band 7 grammatical range.

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