Character and responsibility

Character and responsibility

Poll

Imagine you are playing around your house and end up breaking your mom's flower vase. What would you do?

• I would admit making a mistake

• I would shift the blame to someone else

• I would make up an excuse

Should you always tell the truth?
Is it sometimes better not to tell the truth?

Relative clause

• Gives you more information to define or identify the person or thing we are talking about.

• They include relative pronouns like, who, whom, which and that.

Examples:

• The people who tell the truth all the time do not care about other's feelings. 

• I prefer to read books that are short.

When, where, and whose

• Time: There are occassions when telling the truth may not be a good idea.

• Location: Toluca is a city where people are rude.

• Possesion: I have a cell phone whose speaker doesn't work.

• The relative pronoun is the subject when there is a verb.

• An elephant is an animal that lives in Africa

• The dog that is running over there is my pet.

• The relative pronoun is the object of the sentence when there is noun and verb after:

• I lost the gift that you gave me.

• The city that I like the most is Italy

Multiple Choice

People who lie don't have many problems.

• Subject

• Object

Multiple Choice

The dish that my mom cooked was delicious.

• Subject

• Object

Verbs with prepositions

• The man with whom she is living is very agressive (formal)

• The man who she is living with is very agressive (informal)

Multiple Choice

The boy with _____ my sister was playing is very cute.

• whom

• who

Multiple Choice

Do you know the girl _____ Pepe is talking to?

• who

• whom

• There are some books from which you can get good ideas (formal)

• There are some books which you can get good ideas from (informal)