Ready to put your grammar skills to the test? This crossword focuses on complex relative clauses — from reduced relatives to non-defining constructions and advanced use of whose, whereby, or wherein. Sharpen your understanding of how English connects and qualifies ideas at C1 level, and see how well you can navigate these sophisticated structures!
Horizontalement
- 3. Central element connecting two clauses
- 5. Relative pronoun showing possession
- 7. Clause adding extra non-essential info
- 9. Clause that identifies the noun precisely
- 11. Containing nothing, opposite of full
- 13. To modify a noun after it appears
- 14. Fitting very closely
- 15. Place adverb replacing here
- 15. In that place
Verticalement
- 1. Noun that a relative clause refers to
- 2. Noun phrase renaming another noun
- 3. Verb form used in reduced clauses
- 4. to believe or consider something
- 4. To believe or consider something
- 5. Asking about place or location
- 6. Dependent clause within a sentence
- 8. Word replacing a noun in a clause
- 10. Past form of may used in backshift
- 10. Past form of may in reporting
- 12. overused and lacking originality
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