RELATIVES, SOME AND ANY. EXERCISE NEW

Some, any and compound, e.g. somebody, anything, somehow.
Insert some or any, making the appropriate compounds if necessary.
There’s … milk in that jug.
She wanted … stamps but there weren’t … in the machine.
I’m afraid there isn’t … coffee left; will you grid …?
Is there … one here who speaks Italian?
I’d like to buy … new clothes but I haven’t … money.
There’s … gin in the cupboard but there aren’t glasses.
They can’t have … more strawberries; I want … to make jam.
… one I know told me … of the details.
Have you … idea who could have borrowed your bicycle?
I saw hardly … one I knew at the party, and I didn’t get … thing to drink.
When you would like to come?
… day would suit me.
Are there … letters for me?
Don’t let … one in. I’m busy to see … body.
… thing tells me you’ve got … bad news for me.
I can’t see my glasses … where.
We didn’t think he’d succeed but he managed … now.
You’re looking very miserable; has … Thing upset you?
If you had … sense you wouldn’t leave your car unlocked.
Scarcely … was one wearing a dinner jacket.
… one who believes what Jack says is a fool.
She put her handbag down … where and now she can’t find it.
Will you have … pudding or … fruit?
Haven’t you got … friend in Rome? I feel sure you mentioned them once.
Haven’t you got … friends here? You should join in club and get to know people.
I see you haven’t … maps. Would you like borrow … of mine?
… one can tell you how to get there. (Everyone knows the way.)
Come and have supper with us if you aren’t doing … thing tonight.
I … how imagined the house would be much larger.
All the salaries are being paid much later now; it’s … thing to do with the computer.
He lives … where in France now.
You can’t expect just … student to solve the problem. It requires a mathematician.
He is not very well known here but he’s … one (an important person) in his own country.
Where shall we sit?
Oh … where will do.
IS there … one moving about downstairs? I heard … thing falling.
Is there … one living in that house? It looks deserted.
Would you like … thing to drink? There’s … very good beer in the fridge.
2. Relatives: defining, non-defining, and connective.
Read the following passage and then do the exercise on it. In answers to questions, use a relative clause.
Mr Black usually catches the 8.30 train. This is the fast train. Today he missed it. This annoyed him very much. He caught the 8.40 train. This is a slow train and doesn’t reach London till 9.40. Mr White usually travels up with Mr Black. Today he caught 8.10 as usual. Mr White normally borrows Mr Black’s paper to read on the train. As Mr Black was not there today he borrowed a paper from another passenger, Mr Brown.
What is the 8.10?
What is the 8.40?
Who is Mr Brown? (Connect him with Mr White.)
Who is Mr White?
Combine the following pairs of sentences into one sentence (one for each pair) using relative pronouns:
Mr Black usually catches the 8.10 train. This is a fast train.
Today he missed the 8.10 train. This annoyed him very much.
He caught the 8.40. This doesn’t get in till 9.40.
Mr Penn has two umbrellas, a brown one and a black one. Today he took the black one left it in the bus on his way to work. When he was putting on his coat after his day’s work, he saw the dark blue umbrella hanging on the next hook and took it, thinking it was his.
What was the brown umbrella?
What was the black umbrella?
What was the blue umbrella?
Who was Mr Count? (Relate all your answers to Mr Penn)
Jack and Tom both wanted to go to Malta for their holidays. Tom liked flying so he went to the Blue Skies Agency. They looked him a seat on the tourist flight. Jack hated flying. He went to the Blue Seas Agency. They looked him a berth on the MS Banana. Jack enjoyed his voyage on the MS Banana, especially as he met a very pretty girl on board. She called Julia.
Actually it belonged to Mr Count.
What is Malta? (from the point of view of Jack and Tom)
What is the Blue Skies Agency?
What is the Blue Seas Agency?
What is the MS Banana?
Who is Julia