6.11. Complete the sentences with a suitable attributive clause.

1. She didn’t utter a single word, which …………………

2. The words, which …………………………, seemed to be vaguely familiar.

3. The words which …………………. seemed to heal my pain.

4. The lark …………………………… lives under the eave of my house.

5. The lark was eating crumbs from my daughter’s palm, which ………………

6. I don’t mind larks, which ………………………

7. My mother-in-law distrusts plumbers who ………………………

8. To fix the taps and repair the pipes we hired a plumber, which …………………….

9. I can recommend you the plumber who ………………………….

10. I am phoning about a carpenter whose ……………………….

11. The carpenter with whom …………………………. is now down with flu.

6.12. Define the type of attributive clauses (appositive, limiting, non-limiting, continuative). Translate into Russian.

1. It’s odd, because he usually gives us a reason why we’re not allowed to go somewhere – the forest’s full of dangerous beasts, everyone knows that. 2. And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of the other people in the mirror and saw other pairs of green eyes like his, other noses like his, even a little old man who looked as though he had Harry’s knobbly knees – Harry was looking at his family, for the first time in his life. 3. Harry nodded, but he couldn’t shake off a lurking feeling that there was something he’d forgotten to do, something important. 4. Harry put the plates of egg and bacon on the table, which was difficult as there wasn’t much room. 5. He slipped into a seat between Ron and Hermione at the Gryffindor table and tried to ignore the fact that people were standing up to look at him. 6. Her eyes lingered for a moment on Neville’s cloak, which was fastened under his left ear, and on Ron’s smudged nose. 7. It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles which were floating in mid-air over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting. 8. No one was talking much except Hermione Granger, who was whispering very fast about all the spells she’d learnt and wondering which one she’d need. 9. On the last day of August he thought he’d better speak to his aunt and uncle about getting to King’s Cross station next day, so he went down to the living-room, where they were watching a quiz show on television. 10. Snape was sweeping about in his usual bad temper, which surely meant that the Stone was still safe. 11. Uncle Vernon had to wrestle Dudley to the ground to get the letter from him, which was made difficult by the fact that Harry had grabbed Uncle Vernon around the neck from behind.

6.13. Complete the sentences.

1. That confirmed his slowly growing conviction that ……………………....

2. Those books always roused an interesting debate whether …………………….

3. He was finding it difficult, too, to conceal from others the fact that ………………...

4. The question how ……………………….. still worried him.

5. He sees no reason why ………………………..

6. Fleur, however, had established immediate contact with the architect – an element which ……………

7. The only male member of the aristocracy writing verse that ……………, he had chosen them for seclusion rather than for comfort.

8. Sibley, Walter Nazing, Linda – all those …………………. – were already measured for their coffins.

9. Aren’t you the young man who …………………..……?

10. Love is all that …………………………….

11. From engrained caution and a certain pride, which …………….., Soames shrank from that coarse-grained standard of honesty which conducted the affairs of the British public.

12. She even talked of it with Tony, who ……………………..

13. It became almost a phenomenon in this dingy back street, where ……………….……, and persons went by with books under their arms, as if educated.

14. Pressure of life versus power of resistance – the result of that fight, when ………………., was honesty!

15. Several times he caught her looking at him with a hurt expression, which ……………….…….

16. She has finally come, which ………………….……….

17. I live near the university, which ………………….……..